| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 51311 |
| QUOTATION: | The dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1, l. 80-82 (1604).
part of Hamlet’s meditative soliloquy on the question of “To be, or not to be.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Shakespeare Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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