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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Henrik Ibsen

I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
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, 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

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