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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
HENRIK IBSEN

Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
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 majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
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.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories

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