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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.

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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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