By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
THOMAS MOREYea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
More Thomas More Quotes
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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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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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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