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Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.


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He opposed the King's separation from the Roman Catholic Church and refused to accept him as Supreme Head of the Church of England a title which had been given by parliament through the Act of Supremacy of 1534. More coined the word "utopia" – a name he gave to the ideal and imaginary island nation the political system of which he described in Utopia publiThomas Mored in 1516. ".

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