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He travels best that knows when to return.
Thomas More
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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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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Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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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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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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