"I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you"
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"You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad."
"A woman should always stand by a woman."
"A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing."
"Properly, we should read for power."
"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
"Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette."
"When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best."
"Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person."
"If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they are microbes."
"A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible."
"I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do."
"Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for?"
"To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it."
"'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'"
"Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about."
"We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society."
"Why should I give someone else such power over my life?"
"Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety."
"There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes."