What's in a name?

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i was reading a comic (Asterix), and then i read that Obelix shouts "What's in a name?". I've tried to look for it in the dictionary, but I can't find the meaning of it

[Mister Micawber]

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We use this quotation to mean that the name alone does not reveal the truth or true worth of its bearer. It is from Shaksper's Romeo & Juliet:

JULIET (to Romeo, of a rival family):

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
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