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Quotation from Utopia by Thomas More

“your sheep, which are naturally mild, and easily kept in order, may be said now to devour men and unpeople, not only villages, but towns”

Thomas More (spoken by Raphael Hythloday)

Utopia, Book I (Discourses of Raphael Hythloday), at Cardinal Morton's table, trans. Gilbert Burnet

Portrait of Thomas More

Raphael names enclosure for sheep-pasture as a cause of theft peculiar to England.

Citation: "your sheep, which are naturally mild, and easily kept in order, may be said now to devour men and unpeople, not only villages, but towns" — Thomas More, Utopia, Book I (Discourses of Raphael Hythloday), at Cardinal Morton's table, trans. Gilbert Burnet. (id utopia-q1)

Portrait: Isola di Utopia Moro, Original uploader was Marcok at it.wikipedia, Public domain.

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