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If there is a more concentrated richness of English idioms in a single passage, I’d like to see it:
{{a|drafting|}}If there is a more concentrated richness of English idioms in a single passage, I’d like to see it. It presents the question, what came first: the brilliant idioms, or the fact that they are in so famous a speech?


{{blue|To be, or not to be: that is the question:}} <br>
{{blue|To be, or not to be: that is the question:}} <br>
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To grunt and sweat under a weary life,<br>
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,<br>
But that the dread of something after death,<br>
But that the dread of something after death,<br>
The {{|undiscover’d country}} from whose bourn<br>
The {{blue|undiscover’d country}} from whose bourn<br>
No traveller returns, puzzles the will<br>
No traveller returns, puzzles the will<br>
And makes us rather bear those ills we have<br>
And makes us rather bear those ills we have<br>