We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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