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Nov 23, 2004

"Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty; still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, to silence envious tongues: be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, thy God's and truth's." --Shakespeare

Thus Spake Shakespeare

An average person in England used 3,000 to 4,000. The Hebrew testament used 5,642. The poet John Milton used 8000. But Shakespeare, rather incredibly used 15,000, by some conservative estimates! What are these counts for? The number of words used. It is also believed that Shakespeare has added the most amount of words to the English dictionary, a number that Oxford Dictionary says is 3000 words.