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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.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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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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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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