He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellec…

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He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV) ✨ William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine (2011). Love's Labor's Lost, p.97, Simon and Schuster
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