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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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