Polonius's Advice

IVE every man thy ear, but few thy voice : Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, OVER HILL, OVER DALE And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -From "Hamlet."