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This is the very coinage of your brain (II, iv, 157)

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Gertrude

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O Hamlet, thou has cleft my brain in twain (III, iv, 177)

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Gertrude

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I must be cruel only to be kind; thus bad begins, and worse remains behind (III, iv, 199+)

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Hamlet

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I must be cruel only to be kind; thus bad begins, and worse remains behind (III, iv, 199+)

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Hamlet

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I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft (III, iv, 209+)

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Hamlet

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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm (IV, iii, 29+)

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Hamlet

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And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe, but even his mother shall uncharge the practice and call it accident (IV, vii, 73+)

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Claudius

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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once (V, i, 75)

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Hamlet

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Alas, poor Yorick! (V, i, 177)

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Hamlet

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I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not (with all their quantity of love) Make up my sum. (V, i, 270+)

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Hamlet

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The cat will mew, and dog will have his day (V, i, 295)

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Hamlet

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Theres a divinity that shapes our ends (V, ii, 11)

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Hamlet

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Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes between the pass and fell incensed points of mighty opposites. (V, ii, 66+)

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Hamlet

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Here, thou incentuous, murdrous, damned Dane, drink off this potion! (V, ii, 345)

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Hamlet

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Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.

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Laertes

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A little more than kin, and less that kind! (I, ii, 68)

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Hamlet

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Frailty, thy name is woman!/ A little month, or ere those shoes were old/ WIth which she followed my poor fathers body... (I, ii, 52+)

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Hamlet

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I shall not look upon his like again (I, ii, 198)

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Hamlet

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Perhaps he loves you now, .../ ...his will is not his own, For he himself is ubject to his birth (I, iii, 17, 20-21)

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Laertes

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Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice (I, iii, 72)

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Polonius

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be;/ For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And 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 (I, iii, 79+)

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Polonius

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (I, iv, 100)

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Marcellus

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I am thy fathers spirit, Doom for a certain term to walk the night, .../Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature/ Are burnt and purged away. (I, v, 32+)

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Spirit

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Murder most foul, as in the best it is: But this most foul, strage, and unnatural.. (I, v, 32+)

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Spirit

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Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; .../The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown (I, v, 14+)

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Spirit

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Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught (I, v, 92+)

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Spirit

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O most pernicious woman! (I, v, 112)

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Hamlet

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This time is out of joint. O cursed spite /That ever I was born to set it right! (I, v, 215)

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Hamlet

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By heaven, it is as proper to our age To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions /As it is common for the younger sort /To lack discretion (II, i, 126+)

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Polonius

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...since brevity is the soul of wit, /And tedioiusness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. Mad call it it; for to define true madness What ist but to be nothing else but mad? (II, ii, 96+)

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Polonius

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...for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. (II, ii, 265)

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Hamlet

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What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!...Man delights not me-- no, nor woman neither... (II, ii, 319+)

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Hamlet

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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. (II, ii, 388+)

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Hamlet

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Ill have these players /Play something like the murder of my father /Before mine uncle. Ill observe his looks, /Ill test him to the quest; if he be but blench, I know my course. (II, ii, 602+)

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Hamlet

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The plays the thing /Wherein Ill catch the conscience of the King. (II, ii, 612+)

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Hamlet

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To be, or not to be, that is the question: (III, i, 64)

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Hamlet

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But that the dread of something after death/* The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns-- puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? (II, i, 86+)

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Hamlet

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Get thee to a nunnery (III, i, 126)

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Hamlet

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My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardoned and retain the offense? (III, iii, 58-59)

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Claudius

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Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven, and so am I revenged? (III, iii, 76+)

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Hamlet

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...makes marriage vows as false as dicers oaths. (III, iv, 53+)

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Hamlet

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For this relief much thanks. (I, i, 8)

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Francisco

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O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt (I, ii, 133)

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Hamlet

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A countenance more in sorrow than in anger (I, ii, 247)

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Horatio

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...the primrose path of dalliance (I, iii, 54)

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Ophelia

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More matter with less art. (II, ii, 103)

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Gertrude

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Use every man after his desert and who shall scape whipping? (II, ii, 555-57)

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Hamlet

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O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! (II, ii, 577)

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Hamlet

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Whats Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba? (II, ii, 586)

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Hamlet

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...the devil hath power /T assume a pleasing shape (II, ii, 628-29)

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Hamlet

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The glass of fashion and the mold of form, /Th observed of all observers (III, i, 167-168)

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Ophelia

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A king of shreds and patches (III, iv, 117)

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Hamlet

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...tis the sport to have the enginer /Hoist with his own petard... (III, iv, 229-30)

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Hamlet

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How all occasions do inform me thus (IV, iv, 34)

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Hamlet

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Theres such divinity doth hedge a king (IV, v, 138)

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Claudius

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Sweets to the sweet (V, i, 254)

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Gertrude

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