For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble;
and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste.
Monuments
Quotes, by Sir Thomas More , Source: Richard III
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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.
Rights
Quotes, by Sir Thomas More , Source: Utopia (bk. II)
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They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
Fire
Quotes, by Sir Thomas More , Source: Dial (bk. II, ch. I, folio LXIII, b)
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Then on the grounde
Togyder rounde
With manye a sadde stroke,
They roll and rumble,
They turne and tumble,
As pigges do in a poke.
Swine
Quotes, by Sir Thomas More , Source: How a Sergeant would learn to Playe the Frere
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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.
Miscellaneous
Quotes, by Sir Thomas More
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