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Henrik Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
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
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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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

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