"Perhaps the sentiments
contained in the following pages,
are not yet sufficiently fashionable
to procure them general favor;
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 defence of custom.
But the tumult soon subsides." | by: | Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author |
Date: | January 1776 |
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