"For if you suffer your people to be……" — Thomas More
"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."
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75 Quotes by Thomas More
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much…
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure,…
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
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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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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort…
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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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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding…
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of…
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some…
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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