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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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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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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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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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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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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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