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English Lawyer, Judge, Social Philosopher, Author, Statesman, and Noted Renaissance Humanist
: Venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, he was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #22 on Economic Struggle Quotes >> Workers and Capitalists
“There is a great number of noblemen among you, that are themselves as idle as drones, that subsist on other men's labor, on the labor of their tenants, whom, to raise their revenues, they pare to the quick. This indeed is the only instance of their frugality, for in all other things they are prodigal, even to the beggaring of themselves...”
Source: "Utopia," by Thomas More, 1516. Book 1.
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