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Common Sense Quotes Showing 1-30 of 183. “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense. tags: common-sense. 367 likes. Like.
‘The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.’. These words appear in the introduction to Common Sense, and help to lift Paine’s pamphlet up out of its specific context and make it a universal plea for independence and anti-monarchical government.
20 of the best book quotes from Common Sense 01 “Until an independence is declared the continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.”
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862 quotes from Thomas Paine: 'The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.', 'These are the times that try men's souls.', and 'To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an ...
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