"I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do."
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"Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms."
"...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God."
"If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore."
"I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good."
"Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother."
"I should not mind anything at all."
"Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?"
"It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else."
"One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half."
"The government should be actively enforcing the high road."
"one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started"
"That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last."
"This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it."
"Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks."
"He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat"
"All of you, leave," Vlad responded curtly. "That's not nice," I mumbled. "You should talk to them before you bite them, too. Common curtesy."
"I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone."
"Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution - except one. We should not - we must not - and I will not - raise taxes."
"Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out."