Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when …

Thomas Paine
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Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. ✨ Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). Paine: Political Writings, p.54, Cambridge University Press
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