Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Polonius is speaking to his son, Laertes, as he is leaving for school. Polonius gives him helpful life advice in this monologue from the play Hamlet.

Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion’d thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledg’d comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thine 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;
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
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.
Q:
A:
What is NOT a piece of advice that Polonius gives to his son Laertes?
A) Be yourself
B) Keep your thoughts to yourself
C) Strive to have no enemies
D) Do not lend or borrow money

The correct answer here is B.

Polonius advises his son Laertes not to borrow money or lend it, to strive to have no enemies and above all to be himself. But he does not tell him to keep his thoughts to himself. He says he should give his opinions but not to everyone that he only shares it with select few which can be seen in this line:

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.

So the correct answer here is B.

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