"but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity, and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and chreerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife?"

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Thomas More was an English statesman, lawyer, and humanist scholar of the Renaissance. He is best known for the work Utopia and for his execution under Henry VIII.

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