> Did Shakespeare not write it? No. Shakespeare wrote nothing of the sort, at least not in his surviving works. (You can just search for it [0].) Also, the "b

> Did Shakespeare not write it? No. Shakespeare wrote nothing of the sort, at least not in his surviving works. (You can just search for it [0].) Also, the "better than a master of one" version is most likely a modern invention, given its apparently-complete absence among 20th-century books [1]. (In contrast, real sayings tend to show up all over the place, with how much old almanacs and magazines loved using them to fill space.) [0] https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/100/pg100-images.html https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/100/pg100-images.html [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=better+than+a+master+of+one&udm=36&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1900%2Ccd_max%3A1999 https://www.google.com/search?q=better+than+a+master+of+one&...