Friends are an expensive luxury; and when a man’s whole capital is invested in a calling and, a mission in life, he cannot afford to keep them.[Venner er en kostbar luksus; og når man sætter sin kapital på en kaldelse og en mission her i livet, : så har man ikke råd til at holde venner.]
Source:Letter to George Brandes (March 6, 1870); The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen (ed. Hodder and Stoughton, 1905), Page 183
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