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Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Nov 25, 2013 11:15AM

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Dracula

by Bram Stoker

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Nov 25, 2013 11:10AM

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

tags: education, manners, politics, punishment, scapegoats, thieves

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“You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

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“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

tags: clothing, fashion, humorous, renaissance

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