No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He i…

Thomas Paine
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No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone. ✨ Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). Paine: Political Writings, p.161, Cambridge University Press
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No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone. ✨ Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). Paine: Political Writings, p.161, Cambridge University Press

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