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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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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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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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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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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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