Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
THOMAS MOREIt’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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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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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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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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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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