8 Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

Instead of this absurd division into sexes, they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

—Evelyn Waugh

Is it a world to hide virtues in?

—William Shakespeare

But what, to serve our private ends, Forbids the cheating of our friends?

—Charles Churchill

This above all: to thine own self be true.

—William Shakespeare

Don’t be “consistent,” but be simply true.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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