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| Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. |
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| Thomas Paine |
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| 1737–1809, Anglo-American political theorist and writer, b. Thetford, Norfolk, England. He was the son of a Quaker. An excise officer, he was dismissed from the service after leading (1772) agitation for higher salaries. Paine emigrated to America in 1774, bearing letters of introduction from Benjamin Franklin, who was then in England. He soon became involved in the clashes between England and the American colonies and published the enormously successful pamphlet Common Sense (Jan., 1776), in which he argued that the colonies had outgrown any need for English domination and should be given independence.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  p n from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- Common Sense
An instant bestseller, this popular pamphlet set the foundation for the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution.
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- Paine, Thomas, 43504 to 43531
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT PAINE
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- “Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man; The Age of Reason”
Sections from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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