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The island of Utopia is in the middle two hundred miles broad, and…

Quote byThomas More · 1478–1535

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Utopia (1516), Ch. 1 : Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth.

English (original)

The island of Utopia is in the middle two hundred miles broad, and holds almost at the same breadth over a great part of it, but it grows narrower towards both ends.

— Thomas More

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