Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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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.

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

Springes to catch woodcocks.

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul

Lends the tongue vows.

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.