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One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
-- Eugene O'Neill...
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
-- Augustine's Law Number XLV -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. -- Heine
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life.
The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in i...
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
-- Oscar Wilde...
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.
A woman who would tell that would tell anything. -- Oscar Wilde...
One should not act and speak as if one were asleep.
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. -- Muriel Spark
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
-- Bertrand...
One should want only one thing and want it constantly.
Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing....

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