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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens everye man or his owne parte.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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