Quote by Henrik Ibsen
Dont use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native w

Dont use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies. – Henrik Ibsen

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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. – Henrik Ibsen

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What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! – Henrik Ibsen

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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. – Henrik Ibsen

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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. – Stanley Baldwin

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. – Herbert Hoover

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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. – Malcolm De Chazal

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Ideals are the worlds masters. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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