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English 10/10H
Critical Lens worksheet #5
Directions: Read each of the critical lens statements and provide an interpretation of each one (in your own words) in the space provided.
1. “This above all: to thine own self be true.” –Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
2. “There was never a good war or a bad peace.” --Benjamin Franklin
3. “What reason weaves, by passion is undone.’ – Alexander Pope
4. “We boil at different degrees.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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