"Google it" >> I frequently suggest, and Kathy Brigham replies, "I often do. This time I was looking for the 'soul of wit' quote, which I rightly remembered as coming from Hamlet. But I'd forgotten the context. Polonius had bad news to deliver to his king and queen. Couldn't help picturing some anonymous retainer dropping this bomb on old man [Fred] Trump circa 1968: 'My liege, and madam, to expostulate/ What majesty should be, what duty is,/ Why day is day, night night, and time is time,/ Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
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