"when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural"
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"She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."
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"It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all."
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"When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what"
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"There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart."
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"Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?"
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"It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it."
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"He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many."
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"The internet, since it is publicly created, ought to be publicly controlled."
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"In everything we ought to look at the end."
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"Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing."
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"The sicker and the older you get, the more support you ought to get."
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"In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere."
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"Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be."
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"Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to."
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"The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices."
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"I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for"
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"Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just."
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"There ought to be a law about you coming around."
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"They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."
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