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What is the most misquoted shakespeare line of all time?

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From Hamlet:

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite

jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a

thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is!

My gorge rises at it.

Usually mis-qouted as

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well.

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