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Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine

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"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."	Thinking
"Time makes more converts than reason."	Time
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."	Time
"But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."	Truth & Lies
"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."	Truth & Lies
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."	Virtue
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."	Virtue
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts."	Virtue
"It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf."	War & Peace

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