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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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The devil is compromise.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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