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They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.
Francis Atterbury

God, Live, Made

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
Julius Sterling Morton

Earth, Takes, Generation

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
Arthur Bryant

Great, Brain, Thought

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
Charles James

Past, Cure, Standard

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
Joachim du Bellay

Night, Play, Old

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
Mary Cassatt

Around, Tree, Pick

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
Claudia Johnson

Born, Bachelor, Remain

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.
John G. Schmitz

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina

Life, Long, Self

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.
Stanley Marcus

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.
Georgette Heyer

Wish, Old, Another

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.
Jay Garner

Smile, Mirror, Suck

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
William H. Gray

School, Parents, Choice

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.
Harry Essex

Him, Tell, Ambition

Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.
Steven G. Calabresi

Mind, Vote, Election

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
John Lukacs

Matter, Stand, Forever

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Donald Sinden

Business, Able, Actor

If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace.
William Berkeley

Peace, Mother, Father

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler

Anyone, Sky, Green

One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.
Heinrich Himmler

Enemy, Him, Once

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