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Thomas More1478–1535

I do nobody harm, I say none harm, I think none harm, but wish everybody good. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith, I long not to live.

Thomas More on life and death

Thomas More’s Account, in a letter to his daughter Margaret Roper, of his Second Interrogation

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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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In no victory do they glory so much as in that which is gained by dexterity and good conduct without bloodshed.
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