William Shakespeare

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"To hi or not to hi, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous indifference, or to take arms against a sea of silence and by opposing create solidarity? To hi, to greet; no more; and by a hi to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To hi, to greet; to greet, perchance to connect; ay, there's the rub, for in that connection what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this virtual coil, must give us pause. There's the respect that makes calamity of so long a life; for who would bear the whips and scorns of mean replies, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of unrequited friendship, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of th' unworthy takes, when they themselves might their silence make with a bare Hi? Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of doubt, and enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of action."