"Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it."
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"We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any."
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"We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves."
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"There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted."
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"I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy."
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"Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant."
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"The ideal love affair should be conducted by post."
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"A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated."
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"We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing."
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"Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks."
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"What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness."
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"If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space."
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"The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply."
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"The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be."
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"We should respect all people."
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"He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not. [He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not.]"
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"Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not."
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"If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season."
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"If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell."
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"The amount of grace I would expect from God should be equal to the amount of grace I can gather or earn. I get out what I put in."
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