"A good horse should be seldom spurred."
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"Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink."
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"Wives should be kissed - not heard."
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"Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom."
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"Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!"
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"No one man should have all that power."
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"A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked."
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"It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things."
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"Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill."
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"We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom."
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"I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism."
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"Anything with your name should leave a lasting impression!"
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"Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'"
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"The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible."
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"Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance."
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"Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship."
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"You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there."
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"There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause."
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"My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out."
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"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."
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