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A friend married is a friend lost.

Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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.
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It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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