"If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return."
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"Departure should be sudden."
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"I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."
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"The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them."
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"Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?"
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"He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not."
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"Every man should be content to mind his own business."
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"Even the old should learn."
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"Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!"
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"Your best friend should bring out the best in you"
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"Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible."
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"God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours."
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"Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
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"Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?"
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"Memory should be the starting point of the present."
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"I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself."
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"When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."
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"Women and music should not be dated."
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"A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle."
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"I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out."
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