It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil…

Thomas Paine
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It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. ✨ Thomas Paine (1830). Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous, p.80
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