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Most people know nothing about learning many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
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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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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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