A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Henrik Ibsen Quote
“Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.”
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