"A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously."
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"People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed."
"People should always know better."
"I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax."
"Feeling good is what you should be doing every day of your life."
"Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn't be doing."
"Consider those whom you call your enemies and figure out what they should call you."
"True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be."
"I have felt independent of the opinions of others in terms of whether or not I should or shouldn't be doing that. There's something that I allow to consult myself within myself rather than looking outside to see if this is right or not."
"What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died."
"Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?"
"Good things should be praised."
"Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end."
"If you be King, why should not I succeed?"
"I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is."
"For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error."
"Beauty within itself should not be wasted."
"A man should be what he seems."
"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)"
"Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!."