Vol. 08 · Shakespeare ·As You Like It, Act II.vii ·Jaques
"Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
Widely misattributed.
The line in full
"Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." Jaques — As You Like It, Act II.vii
Why it matters
Correctly quoted; but misquoted as a standalone epigram when it is the tail of Jaques's Seven Ages of Man — the closing description of the final age, not a general maxim on decline.
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