A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MOREIt is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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