"Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs."
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"Generosity should never exceed ability."
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"We should all learn to take things easily - other people's things."
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"Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner."
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"Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor."
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"There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us."
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"We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire."
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"The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us."
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"We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own."
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"Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?"
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist"
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"'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention."
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"Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental."
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"A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us."
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"It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that."
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"I am crazy for dessert. I eat everything. No one should be denied anything... just don't eat the whole thing."
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"Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die."
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"It was the East that should have sent us missionaries."
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"God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union."
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"If you could do better, should you?"
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