Don't use that foreign word 'ideals. ' We have that excellent native word 'lies. ' - Henrik Ibsen

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I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born. . . can be transformed into their exact opposites and can therefore produce in us the loveliest of all qualities.

Henrik Ibsen

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals. ' We have that excellent native word 'lies. '

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

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