Excerpt from “HAMLET”

There – my blessings with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory.

Look thou character, Give thy thought no tongue.
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

Those friends thou hast & their adaption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steal;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment.

Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade,
BEWARE that the opposed may beware of thee –

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement.

Costly thy habits as thy purse can buy,
But not expresses in FANCY; rich nor gaurdy;
For the apparel oft proclaim the man,
And they in France of the best rank
and station
Are most select generous, chief in that

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
A borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry
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.

Give more light than heat, extiner in both
Set your entreatments at a higher rafe

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