‘To Thine Own Self Be True’
In Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Hamlet’, Polonius sends his son Laertes off to Paris with a little common sense. Speak and act without haste, he counsels, and vet friends carefully; be diplomatic, but firm, and dress well but modestly, like the French. Loans, he warns, ruin friendships; but the man who keeps faith with himself will never betray others.
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