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• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in… — H.G. Wells
• Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce… — G. Campbell Morgan
• All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we… — David Hume
• There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison
• Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of… — James Madison
• there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the… — James Madison
• I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the… — Mark Twain
• There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison
• If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg… — Alphonsus Liguori
• Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. — Frank Moore Colby
• The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the… — Demosthenes

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