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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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