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• Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

  Washington Gladden

  Lying, Special, Flattery

  Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”

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• Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Travel, Sorry, Eggs

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.65

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• I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.

  Jane Ace

  Thinking, People, Psychiatry

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• You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Men, Giving, Office

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• Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fun, Views, Justice

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

  Marie de France

  Stories, Want, Variety

  Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult

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• You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

  Edna Buchanan

  Family, Brain, Trying

  Edna Buchanan (2014). “Act of Betrayal: A Britt Montero Mystery - Book Four”, p.193, Diversion Books

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• People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

  Kate Millett

  Respect, People, Way

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• I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Two, Answers

  Donald Rumsfeld, United States. Dept. of Defense. Historical Office (2001). “Public statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Guilt, Sometimes, Found

  Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1894). “A House in Bloomsbury”

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• Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Justice, Principles, Different

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 20 : Taxation and Redistribution, 1960.

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• He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?

  Pierre Charron

  Eye, Men, Long

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• Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

  Margaret Halsey

  Tolerance, Way, Assuming

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Commitment, Maturity

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.1073, Simon and Schuster

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• Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.

  Winifred Holtby

  Change, Progress, Hens

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.

  Lillian Russell

  Eye, Whales, Oysters

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• If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.

  Jared Sparks

  Country, Integrity, Sacrifice

  Jared Sparks (1855). “The Life of George Washington by Jared Sparks”, p.371

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• Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.

  Vance Palmer

  Cities, Giving, Creative

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• Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy, and ought to be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we may admire the brilliant spots and eyes of the viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Book, Eye, Men

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• God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. We wrong God, and put an affront upon him, if we think so. God honoured man in making his soul after his own likeness; but man dishonours God if he makes him after the likeness of his body. The Godhead is spiritual, infinite, immaterial, incomprehensible, and therefore it is a very false and unjust conception which an image gives us of God.

  Matthew Henry

  Spiritual, Art, Men

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• I value science--none can prize it more,
  It gives ten thousand motives to adore:
  Be it religious, as it ought to be,
  The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

  Abraham Coles

  Religious, Heart, Science

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22

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• The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

  Joan Robinson

  Essentials, Firsts, Economics

  Joan Robinson (2017). “Economic Philosophy”, p.95, Routledge

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• We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust--to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right--to keep close to Him--and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Believe, Promise, Doctrine

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• The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.

  Frank A. Vanderlip

  Thinking, Men, Circles

  "From Farm Boy to Financier". Book by Frank Arthur Vanderlip, chapter 25, p. 257, 1935.

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• I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.

  Gertrude Bell

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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