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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.

— Thomas More Richard III and His Miserable End (1543)

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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.

Utopia (1516)

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.

Utopia (1516)

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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