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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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