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1
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so -Hamlet

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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so -Hamlet

2
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Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love

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Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love

3
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This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man -Polonius

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This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man -Polonius

4
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t -Polonius

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t -Polonius

5
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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy -Hamlet

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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy -Hamlet

6
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To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there’s the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come… -Hamlet

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To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there’s the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come… -Hamlet

7
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Brevity is the soul of wit -Polonius

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Brevity is the soul of wit -Polonius

8
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Listen to many, speak to a few -Polonius

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Listen to many, speak to a few -Polonius

9
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One may smile, and smile, and be a villain -Hamlet

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One may smile, and smile, and be a villain -Hamlet

10
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all -Hamlet

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Conscience doth make cowards of us all -Hamlet

11
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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go -King Claudius

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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go -King Claudius

12
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Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest -Horatio

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Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest -Horatio

13
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This above all: to thine own self be true -Polonius

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This above all: to thine own self be true -Polonius

14
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! -King Claudius

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! -King Claudius

15
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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go -King Claudius

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go -King Claudius

16
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God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another -Hamlet

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God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another -Hamlet

17
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I must be cruel only to be kind;

Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind -Hamlet

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I must be cruel only to be kind;

Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind -Hamlet