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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.

Henrik Ibsen

The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
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
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man 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

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