Sir Thomas More — a remark

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“The clearness of my conscience has made my heart hop for joy.”

Finding unexpected joy in the certainty of a clear conscience amid imprisonment · Letter to Margaret Roper, from the Tower, 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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