A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial app…

Thomas Paine
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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 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. ✨ Thomas Paine Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor), Powell Publications, LLC
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