Sir Thomas More — a remark

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“I never intend, God being my good Lord, to pin my soul to another man’s back, not even the best man that I know this day living: for I know not where he may hap to carry it.”

Personal responsibility for conscience cannot be delegated to any other person · Dialogue with his daughter Margaret, Tower of London, August 1534

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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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