The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

Robert Bolt
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  1. Alice More: As for understanding, I understand that you are the best man that I ever met, or am likely to; And, if you go... Well, God knows why I suppose. Though as God's my witness God's kept deadly quiet about it!
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