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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Henrik Ibsen

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
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
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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

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