"If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company."
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"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art."
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"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
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"The soul should concentrate itself by itself."
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"I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned."
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"A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem."
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"Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems."
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"Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it."
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"We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can."
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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know."
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"Why should poetry have to make sense?"
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"Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not."
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"We should worship as though the deity were present."
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"It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed."
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"Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more."
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"So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore."
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"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."
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"I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside."
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"A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
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"The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words."
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