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• A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.

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  Food, Men, Vegetables

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• Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

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  Pride, Thinking, Shining

  Thomas More (2009). “Utopia”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

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  Heaven

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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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  Men, Names, Rich

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• Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.

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  Witty, Sex, Powerful

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• He travels best that knows when to return.

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  Return, Knows

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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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  Food, Choices, Advice

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• It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

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  Friendship, Chance, Made

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• The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.

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  Men, Good Man

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• Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.

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  Flower, Problem, Educated

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• What is deferred is not avoided.

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  Avoided

  Saint Thomas More (2005). “Utopia”

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• Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.

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  May, Way, Tribulation

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• Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

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  People, Dumb, Despise

  Thomas More (2014). “Utopia: Second Edition”, p.6, Yale University Press

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• An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

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  Men, Ideas, New Ideas

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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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  Wise, Men, Office

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.

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  Wise, Medicine, Wish

  Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Henry Neville (2008). “Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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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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  Falling In Love, War, Romance

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• Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.

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  Heart, Pride, Men

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• The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.

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  Men, Water, Parent

  Sir Thomas More (2009). “Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia”, p.93, The Floating Press

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• I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

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  Kings, Men, Lions

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• Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

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  Power, Government, Law

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• By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Soul, Vision

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• If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

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  Men, Lions, Hard

  Saint Thomas More (2005). “Utopia”

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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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  Kings, Smart, Men

  Thomas More (1908). “Sir Thomas Moro's Utopia”

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• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

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  Friendship, Flower, Wine

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