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“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.”
~ Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
Common Sense, February 14, 1776, Introduction
