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Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend , And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry . 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 ! '' _ _ Good advice is very fine , From those who think and make it ; Only one in ninety-nine Will ever stop to take it ! _ Hamlet and his friends , Horatio and Marcellus , go to the passing place of the Ghost at midnight , and there , to the amazement of Hamlet , he sees the apparition of his father , and exclaims : _ `` Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned , Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell , Be thy intents wicked or charitable , Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee . I 'll call thee Hamlet , King , father , royal Dane ; O , answer me ! Let me not burst in ignorance ; but tell Why thy canonized bones , hearsed in death , Have burst their cerements ; why thy sepulchre , Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned Hath opened his ponderous and marble jaws , To cast thee up again .