Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
THOMAS MOREAnyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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