"Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter."
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"Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave."
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"The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens."
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"The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last."
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"I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats."
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"I should have said something. ... But my mouth wouldn't open, and the longer I stood there in silence, the better I can to understand the problem. It wasn't that I had nothing to say to him. It was that I had too much to say."
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"Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?"
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"What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips."
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"We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties."
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"Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards."
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"Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else."
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"When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet."
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"A true beanie should have a propellor on the top."
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"Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from."
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"A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic."
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"Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly."
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"I should have written that down. - Dilbert"
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"Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood."
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"All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day."
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"Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly."
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