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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Henrik Ibsen

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

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