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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Thomas More
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
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