If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have …

Thomas Paine
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ✨ Thomas Paine (2003). Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine, p.96, Penguin
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