Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford
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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
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CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD [Chowder] breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.
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JOEL: I know.
CLEMENTINE: What d...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
DANIEL WOODRELL I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
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LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Fundamentally, people ought to be able to live near where they work.
EVAN FEINMAN stop looking for job, create one.
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RASHEDUR RYAN RAHMAN We feel really good that we are where we ought to be.
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NOEL COWARD Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.
SIR NOEL COWARD Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
NOEL COWARD Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade
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AMOR TOWLES You never grow old until you've lost all your marvels.
MERRY BROWNE Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
ALFRED DE VIGNY I think they ought to move to South Carolina, some place where you can sell that stuff, ... Union ba...
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STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
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Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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and they never forget a single m...
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grew up in)
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someone replaced my chest with a broken record.
...
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when I am done. She will show up
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you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have t...
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