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    Shakespeare quotes in Adventures of Huckleberry Finnn

    What Shakespeare quotes are in Huckleberry Finn?

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    As far as I can remember there are not many exact quotes from Shakespeare works.
    There are, however, many allusions to Shakespeare and misquotations of his works e.g.

    - Richard III
    - Romeo and Juliet
    - Hamlet
    - King Lear
    - Macbeth

    The most prominent misquotation was taken from the greatest Shakespearean soliloquy (Hamlet) - "To be, or not to be".

    I'm just holding my copy of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and it goes like this:
    (Chapter 20)
    To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
    That makes calamity of so long life;
    For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsiname,
    But that the fear of something after death
    Murders the innocent sleep,
    Great nature's second course,
    And makes us rather sling the arrow of outrageous fortune...
    ...and so on
    Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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