Chaucer was a splitter, and even Shakespeare had a go.

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After all, those details have been shared often enough, starting not with Elizabeth Taylor (1963), Shakespeare (1623) or even Plutarch (1st Century AD).

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But after walking even just a section or two of Shakespeare's Way, you'll come away with a newfound admiration for his strolling skills, too.

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But Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus is even more violent.

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The big winner is William Shakespeare, with four hundred and fifty-five, topping even the Yahwist and his co-authors, the wordsmiths who churned out the Bible but managed to come up with only four hundred quotable passages.

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Mr. STEPHEN LIAS (Texas Shakespeare Festival): If you're going to do a gimmick getting an audience that appreciates a certain popular group's style to come to see Shakespeare, I think it's a clever idea, even if it is a gimmick.

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Even though the miracle of compound interest comes with the benefit of mathematical certainty, as Shakespeare said, it is honored more in the breach than the observance.

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The cheque guarantee, denoted by a Shakespeare hologram on a card, meant a cheque was honoured by a bank, even if sufficient funds were not in an account.

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