It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ✨ Thomas P…

Thomas Paine
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ✨ Thomas Paine (1824). The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life, p.284
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ✨ Thomas Paine (1824). The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life, p.284

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