"You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!"
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"Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were."
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"To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself."
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"It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated."
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"Who sows virtue ought to reap honour."
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"In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be."
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"He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . ."
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"Families ought to be noisy."
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"One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'"
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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
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"There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?"
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"Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it."
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"I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin."
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"If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead."
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"We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves."
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"I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked."
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"We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good."
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"Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others."
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"I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen."
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"Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it."
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