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

—  Henrik Ibsen

Ikke tusend ord
sig prenter, som én gernings spor.
Manden, Act II
Brand (1866)

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Ikke tusend ord<br/>sig prenter, som én gernings spor.

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Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet 1828–1906

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