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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3291505" data-attributes="member: 4937">It is I that should ask you to be forebearing of me, since you've brought such a learned quote to the discussion whereas I have mangled with half remembered thoughts the good Bard's stanzas.You have made a better quote than mine, and more to the point.&nbsp; You may be right that I was half remembering my Montaigne, but the quote that I was thinking of was from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 where the players have arrived at court.&nbsp; &quot;Polonius: My lord, I will use them according to their desert.&nbsp;Hamlet: Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?&quot;For the benefit of our reader's who don't come to English as a mother tongue, loosely translated into the modern that reads:Polonius: &quot;My lord, I will provide for them according to what they deserve.&quot;Hamlet: &quot;By God's shirt, man, better: provide for every man what they deserve, and who would escape being flogged?&quot;So, the Montaigne better makes the strong point I was trying to make, and for that I don't pardon you, I thank you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3291505, member: 4937"] It is I that should ask you to be forebearing of me, since you've brought such a learned quote to the discussion whereas I have mangled with half remembered thoughts the good Bard's stanzas. You have made a better quote than mine, and more to the point. You may be right that I was half remembering my Montaigne, but the quote that I was thinking of was from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 where the players have arrived at court. "Polonius: My lord, I will use them according to their desert. Hamlet: Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?" For the benefit of our reader's who don't come to English as a mother tongue, loosely translated into the modern that reads: Polonius: "My lord, I will provide for them according to what they deserve." Hamlet: "By God's shirt, man, better: provide for every man what they deserve, and who would escape being flogged?" So, the Montaigne better makes the strong point I was trying to make, and for that I don't pardon you, I thank you. [/QUOTE]

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