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- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
- People are much more interesting than people realise.
- Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed…
- It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces…
- The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard…
- Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae';…
- His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners…
- Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle