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Henrik Ibsen

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life

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