by Daniel Rentfro “Do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.” It’s commonly said that, in English-speaking culture, the two largest sources of quotes, aphorisms, and phrases are the Bible and Shakespeare’s poems and plays. In Shakespeare, there is no greater concentration of maxims than in Polonius’s farewell to his son Laertes, in the first act of Hamlet. “The clothes make the man;” “Neither a borrower not a lender be;” “To thine own self be true;” these, and many others, packed into a…
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