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1 " Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done! "
― Henrik Ibsen , A Doll's House
2 " At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of " getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers. "
3 " The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons. "
4 " It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration. "
