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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.

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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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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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