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.
THOMAS MOREMost people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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