"The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him."
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"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works."
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"A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end."
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"We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects."
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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."
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"...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days."
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"We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music."
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"I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else."
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"I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it."
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"One should steal only where one cannot rob."
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"You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake."
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"He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses."
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"I should infinitely prefer a book."
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"I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more"
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"Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it."
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"She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet."
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"That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue."
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"I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will."
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"Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun."
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"I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else."
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