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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
HENRIK IBSEN

Known Myself Right Yourself
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong

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