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10 Cards in this Set
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O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! |
-Speaker: Hamlet
-Means: He wishes he could just go away; fad away |
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Frailty, thy name is woman!
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-Speaker: Hamlet
-Means: Women are weak! |
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Speaker: Marcellus
-Means: Something bad is coming their way |
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The time is out of joint. O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right! |
-Speaker: Hamlet
-Means: Things are not right, Dammit, can I do what I need to do? |
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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-Speaker: Polonius
-Means: To speak to the point is a sign of intelligence |
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More matter, with less art.
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-Speaker: Queen
-Means: Say what you have to say |
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
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-Speaker: Polonius
-Means: He knows Hamlet is acting mad, but there is a purpose to it |
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...there is nothing either good or bad but thinking make it so.
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-Speaker: Hamlet
-Means: Nothing is good or bad but you think it is |
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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly
I know a hawk from a handsaw. |
-Speaker: Hamlet
-Means: I'm mad when I need to be, but I'm sane when I need to be. |
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O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
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-Speaker: Hamlet
-Means: Hamlet is comparing himself to a villain; a slave. |
