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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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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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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens everye man or his owne parte.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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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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