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  • King Henry II: He's read books, you know, it's amazing. He's drunk and wenched his way through London but he's thinking all the time.

  • King Henry II: So what in most people is morality, in you it's just an exercise in... what's the word?

    Thomas a Becket: Aesthetics.

    King Henry II: Yes, that's the word. Always "aesthetics."