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Tuesday 23 April 2019

Quotes Apr 24

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people.For kings and ministers are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.  - Adam Smith

Under the pseudonym 'William Ross', More published a lengthy Response ad Lutherum, which conveyed low personal invective in elevated humanist Latin - a text disconcertingly full of sewage, shit, vomit, poison, pimps, asses and pigs. - - Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p. 127

Ex-friar Barnes --- replied from the same pulpit ... denouncing Gardiner (Bishop Stephen Gardiner is the Bishop of Winchester ) as ' as a 'sower of evil herbs in the garden of scripture'. - - Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p. 278

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