Sir Thomas More — a remark

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“Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office; my neck is very short, take heed therefore thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty.”

Gentle encouragement and wit offered to the man about to take his life · Words to the executioner, scaffold, 6 July 1535 (Roper’s Life)

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Sir Thomas More

7 February 1478–6 July 1535

In the pantheon of Renaissance literature, few figures cast as long a shadow as Sir Thomas More, a man whose pen shaped both political thought and literary imagination for centuries to come. Born into the bustling world of Tudor London in 1478, More would rise to become one of England's most celebrated humanist…

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