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You're welcome to explain why you disagree with the OP and what true value can, in your view, be derived from studying classical literature.

I likely agree with you, but if you're just going to make a vaguely disparaging statement in the negative without elaborating or contributing to the discussion then you really might as well not comment at all.

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To answer both you and in passing GP: ———

My liege and madam, to expostulate

What majesty should be, what duty is,

Why day is day, night, night, and time is time —

Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,

And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

I love how "brevity is the soul of wit" has become some wise aphorism, but of course in context of Polonius' rambling, it is a genuinely hilarious joke.

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