"Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone."
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"The most happy ought to wish for death."
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"Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it."
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"I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody."
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"If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans."
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"If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh."
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"War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts."
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"How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' ."
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"Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed."
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"He that plaies his mony ought not to value it."
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"He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole."
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"Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought."
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"Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?"
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"It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price."
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"If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it."
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"The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true."
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"We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating."
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"To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved."
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"There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won."
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"We ought to consider the end in everything."
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