""And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that.""
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"Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home."
"The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false."
"Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used."
"While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes."
"He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past."
"The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house."
"Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good."
"We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives."
"You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die."
"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words."
"Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop."
"When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'"
"This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell."
"What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!"
"Everyone should dance more. Everyone should walk more."
"Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy."
"It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating."
"Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something."
"We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature."