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.
Which is the most accurate adaptation of the underlined part of the excerpt?
a. It is very rare to be an honest person in this world.
b. Most people in the world just don’t want to be honest.
c. Honest people don’t show up in the world too often.
d. Honesty is an overrated virtue in the world.