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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
1559
    There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1560
    A dream itself is but a shadow.
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1561
    Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1562
    This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1563
    Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither.
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1564
    There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1565
    I know a hawk from a handsaw.
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1566
    O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1567
    One fair daughter and no more,
The which he loved passing well.
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1568
    Come, give us a taste of your quality.
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1569
    The play, I remember, pleased not the million; ’t was caviare to the general.
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1570
    They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1571
    Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping?
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1572
    What ’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?
          Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.