Sound advice
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Part of Panorama
- Title
- Sound advice
- Creator
- Shakespeare, William
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1968
- Subject
- Hamlet.
- Rights
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- Abstract
- Lines from Hamlet.
- Fulltext
- tion, and more serious dedi cation to work and duty than what is demanded in most government jobs. The requirements for civil ser vice eligibility are simple and often merely formal and routinary. In many instances the youth frequently shuns the private occupations and enterprises and prefer to en ter positions in the govern ment civil service or in gov ernment-controlled corpora tions which are often obtainof political leaders and inable through the influence fluential friends. Our pri vate enterprises are being gradually deserted by ele ments who are needed to strengthen the foundations of a democratic society. And the ship of state rapidly and dangerously accumulates bar nacles, so to say, that hinder the normal rate of its pro gress. — V. G. Sihco, August, 15, 1968. SOUND ADVICE Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.... Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.—HAMLET August 1968 7