William Shakespeare tweets on Stephen Harper

These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing

Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
Who else would soar above the view of men,
And keep us all in servile fearfulness.[1]

~ Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599

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[1] William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, eds. Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (New York: The Modern Library, 2011), p. 6 (Act 1, Scene1).