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April Fool's 2023 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 4/1/2023
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The cache is not at the posted coordinates. To get the coordinates, you must figure out the solution to this puzzle.

In honor of April Fool's Day, I offer a sampling of the wisdom from Shakespeare’s merriest philosophers, with their commentary on fools, liars, and the human condition.

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”  -Touchstone, As You Like It, V.1.2217

“Truth’s a dog must to kennel; he must be whipp’d out…”  -The Fool, King Lear, I.4.640

“Why, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them.”  -Feste, Twelfth Night, V.1.2583

“Good counsellors lack no clients: though you change your place, you need not change your trade.”  -Pompey, Measure for Measure, I.2.195

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”  -Feste, Twelfth Night, I.5.328

“If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.”  -Clown, All’s Well That Ends Well, I.3.372

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”  -Puck, A Midsummernight’s Dream, III.2.117

“For honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.”  -Touchstone, As You Like It, III.3.1528

“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”  -Feste, Twelfth Night, I.5.19

“This is to make an ass of me, to fright me if they could.”  Nick Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.1.143

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”  -Fool, King Lear, I.5.917

“The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.”  -Touchstone, As You Like It, I.2.86

"Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!" -Falstaff, Henry IV, V.4.148

 

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