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Would. A conditional statement in the first person requires should, not would.   I should not have succeeded without his help.   The equivalent of shall in indirect quotation after a verb in the past tense is should, not would.   He predicted that before long we should have a great surprise.   To express habitual or repeated action, the past tense, without would, is usually sufficient, and from its brevity, more emphatic.
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
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