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The film, A Man for all Seasons is based on the life of Thomas More.
Thomas More = English statesman who accepted execution rather than take an oath against his beliefs

He looked to Thomas more out of place than a carrot on a tomato plant.† (source) James Dashner, The Maze Runner, 2009

Making deliveries on the Upper East Side, he often found himself in the vicinity of a small Catholic church, St. Thomas More.† (source)

The Household Steward of Sir Thomas More!† (source)

The one fixed point in a world of changing friendships is that Thomas More will not give in!† (source)

(Lighting changes so that the set looks drab and chilly) Sir Thomas More again† (source)

Yet is there a man in this court, is there a man in this country, who does not know Sir Thomas More's opinion of the King's title?† (source)

(CROMWELL looks at him viciously) CROMWELL (Goes apart; formally) Sir Thomas More, is there anything you wish to say to me concerning the King's marriage with Queen Anne† (source)

(While JAILER brings a stool from under the stairs and MORE sits on it, NORFOLK rattles off) This is the Seventh Commission to inquire into the case of Sir Thomas More, appointed by His Majesty's Council† (source)

As soon as the fanfare is finished NORFOLK speaks) NORFOLK (Takes refuge behind a rigorously official manner) Sir Thomas More, you are called before us here at the Hall of Westminster to answer charge of High Treason.† (source)

CRANMER (Laying the cross of his vestment on the table) Place your left hand on this and raise your right handtake your hat off— Now say after me: I swear by my immortal soul— (JAILER, overlapping, repeats the oath with him) —that I Will report truly anything said by Sir Thomas More against the King, the Council or the State of the Realm.† (source)

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Sharon bought and arranged the flowers for St. Thomas More.† (source)

St. Thomas More collected old clothes for the poor.† (source)

England's next Lord Chancellor was Sir Thomas More, a scholar and, by popular repute, a saint.† (source)

And I may say Thomas More— CROMWELL Thomas More will line up on the right side.† (source)

Now, enter, at the head of the stairs, SIR THOMAS MORE) STEWARD That's Sir Thomas More.† (source)

Pauses with a cup in hand) My master Thomas More would give anything to anyone.† (source)

(They are going when CHAPUYS and his ATTENDANT enter) CHAPUYS Sir Thomas More† (source)

She had come to New York without a job or even many clothes and had found her way to St. Thomas More.† (source)

When I first went to see Sharon at St. Thomas More, she told me she'd recently spoken to Nancy and Charlie.† (source)

Not, for instance, the retarded lady with whom she lived for several years after the pastor at St. Thomas More decided he no longer wanted women living in the rectory.† (source)

At least this wasn't a difficult delivery, only three crosstown blocks, and he already knew the address, right next door to that peaceful little church, St. Thomas More.† (source)

(CROMWELL's face darkens during this speech) CROMWELL (Sharply) Yes— CHAPUYS To— CROMWELL Sir Thomas More's† (source)

RICH Oh, everyone's affable here ....(MORE is pleased) Also of course, the friendship of Sir Thomas More.† (source)

The King's a man of conscience and he wants either Sir Thomas More to bless his marriage or Sir Thomas More destroyed.† (source)

(Places two stools at the table, and on it mugs and a candle, which he lights) Oh, he's a deep one, that Sir Thomas More ....Deep ....It takes a lot of education to get a man as deep as that ....(Straight to audience) And a deep nature to begin with too† (source)

Their taste in books was catholic, at any rate; Plato in Greek touched Omar in English; Nietzsche partnered Newton; Thomas More was there, and also Hannah More, Thomas Moore, George Moore, and even Old Moore.† (source) James Hilton, Lost Horizon, 1933

Sir Thomas More says one can marry at twenty-four.† (source) D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, 1913

She laughed quaintly, saying: "Does it need Sir Thomas More's sanction?"† (source) D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, 1913

Socrates'[344] condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum,[345] during his life, and Sir Thomas More's[346] playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.† (source)

"He will answer /trewe/" is in Sir Thomas More; "and /soft/ unto himself he sayd" in Chaucer; "the singers sang /loud/" in the Revised Version of the Bible (Nehemiah xii, 42), and "/indifferent/ well" in Shakespeare.† (source)

The next is, that Sir Thomas More is chosen Lord Chancellor in your place.† (source) William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, 1613

I had the honour to have much conversation with Brutus; and was told, "that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together:" a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.† (source)

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