A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MOREThey have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
More Thomas More Quotes
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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