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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Character is much easier kept than recovered. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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The greatest remedy for anger is delay. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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