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The man-at-arms is the only man.

Henrik Ibsen

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
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
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing

The man-at-arms is the only man.

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