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title: "6 Hamlet Play Quotes by 6 authors"
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> ['Macbeth' sags in act four - the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn't work theatrically. But with 'Hamlet,' although the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-pryce/macbeth-sags-in-act-four-the-england-scene-with-malcolm-and-macduff/)

[Jonathan Pryce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-pryce/)

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> [“I would not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without a profound study of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-would-not-go-so-far-as-to-say-that-to-construct-a-history-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/i-will-not-go-so-far-as-to-say-that-to-construct-a-history-of-thought/)

[Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/)

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> ['Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meghan-o-rourke/hamlet-is-a-play-about-a-man-whose-grief-is-deemed-unseemly/)

[Meghan O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meghan-o-rourke/)

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> [Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-taylor-coleridge/hamlet-s-character-is-the-prevalence-of-the-abstracting-and/)

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-taylor-coleridge/)

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> ['Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-farr/hamlet-is-a-play-of-many-strange-parts-with-ghosts-and-players/)

[David Farr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-farr/)

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