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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

— Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck (1884)

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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society.

The Pillars of Society (1877)

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

An Enemy of the People (1882)

Whether I pound or am being pounded,
all the same there will be moaning!

Peer Gynt (1867)

A thousand words can't
make the mark a single deed will leave.

Brand (1866)

The State has its root in time, and will ripe and rot in time.

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