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This law was made by Utopus, not only for preserving the public peace, which he saw suffered much by daily contentions and irreconcilable heats, but because he thought the interest of religion itself required it.

— Thomas More Utopia (1516)

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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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I die the king's faithful servant, and God's first.

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.

This vice [Pride] does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the miseries of others.

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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason.

Advising an author to put his MS. into rhyme. Reported in Hoyt's (1922)

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