Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Hamlet: Then I would you were so honest a man. Polonius: Honest, my lord! Hamlet: Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Hamlet says that an honest person is “one man picked out of ten thousand,” meaning honesty is extremely rare in the world. Choice A, “It is very rare to be an honest person in this world,” states that idea most directly. The line does not say that people deliberately reject honesty or that honesty is overrated.

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