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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Thomas More

Utopia

On the citizens of Utopia.

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More, Thomas. Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia. Leuven: Self-published, 1516, bk. 2.

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More, Thomas. Utopia, edited and translated by Paul Turner. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2.

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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

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More, Thomas. Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia. Leuven: Self-published, 1516, bk. 2.

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More, Thomas. Utopia, edited and translated by Paul Turner. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2.

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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

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More, Thomas. Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia. Leuven: Self-published, 1516, bk. 2.

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More, Thomas. Utopia, edited and translated by Paul Turner. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2.

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