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July 28, 2009 - 6:54 am - by Richard Fernandez
Walter Kennamer
2009-07-28 11:06:35

#24 TxCharley
#15 Tony B

Re: “To the manner born” vs. “to the manor born”

You see both forms from time to time, but “to the manner born” was the original quotation from Hamlet.

HORATIO: Is it a custom?

HAMLET: Ay, marry, is’t:
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour’d in the breach than the observance.