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Library - Literature - Shakespeare In Our Lives - Hair
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Shakespeare in our language today: What a piece of work is man!

Hamlet Act 2, scene 2

Hamlet:
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet,
to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me—
nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

The Hair musical put music to this (up to "the paragon of animals")