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arrant(adjective) Utter; out-and-out. Synonyms: double-dyed, sodding, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, staring, perfect, pure, everlasting, consummate, complete, stark, grossUsage: That is the most arrant nonsense I have ever heard.
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HAMLET I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where’s your father? I am arrogant, vengeful, ambitious, with more ill will in me than I can fit into my thoughts, and more than I have time to carry it out in. Why should people like me be crawling around between earth and heaven? Every one of us is a criminal. Don’t believe any of us. Hurry to a convent. Where’s your father?
OPHELIA At home, my lord.
OPHELIA He’s at home, my lord.
HAMLET Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house. Farewell. HAMLET Lock him in, so he can play the fool in his own home only. Good-bye.
OPHELIA O, help him, you sweet heavens! OPHELIA Oh, dear God, please help him!
HAMLET If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. Farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell.
Hamlet; Act 3, Scene 1
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You had to start me on Hamlet, didn't you ? " God gives you one face and you paint yourself another ! You jig, you amble, and you lisp, you nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance !" One of the great rants of all time.
Sanity is not statistical
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