The King James Bible and the Riverside Shakespeare. Together they probably represent the zenith of my cultural enlightenment.
Mom always says that all figures of speech come from either the bible or Shakespeare. (This link is a National Geo article on the bible...) And I love the language of both.
"If a child is ever the apple of her parents' eye or an idea seems as old
as the hills, if we are at death's door or at our wits' end, if we have
gone through a baptism of fire or are about to bite the dust, if it
seems at times that the blind are leading the blind or we are casting
pearls before swine, if you are either buttering someone up or casting
the first stone, the King James Bible, whether we know it or not, is
speaking through us. The haves and have-nots, heads on plates, thieves
in the night, scum of the earth, best until last, sackcloth and ashes,
streets paved in gold, and the skin of one's teeth..."
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