Sir Thomas More — a remark

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“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.”

Declaration of harmless intent and readiness to accept death if innocence is insufficient · Letter to Margaret Roper, account of interrogation

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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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