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Alas, poor Owen Wilson, your TV ad Shakespeare quote is made up by Mark Fisher

In a festive sofa advertising campaign, the actor claims the bard once exclaimed: 'People usually are the happiest at home.' One problem " the oft-cited line is pure bunkumWhat was Shakespeare thinking when he wrote: "People usually are the happiest at home"? Not only is it a banal observation, it isn't even in iambic pentameter. Could he really have been so inconsistent? One minute he was fretting over the "slings a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AM on January 3, 2018

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