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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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