"I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by
William Shakespeare
"O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by
William Shakespeare
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by
William Shakespeare
"To be, or not to be,--that is the question:--whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?"
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by
William Shakespeare
"Alas, poor Yorick!--I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it."
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by
William Shakespeare