Shakespeare? He's all over the place

When I was a kid at school, there was one line from William Shakespeare that summed up my life on a cold winter morning in darkest Oxfordshire. And here it is.

"And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school."

That line comes from his comedy, As You Like It, something I and millions of other British schoolchildren studied because then, as now, Shakespeare's works formed part of the national curriculum and were required reading until you left school.