There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that…

Thomas Paine
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ✨ Thomas Paine (1826). The age of reason, p.36
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ✨ Thomas Paine (1826). The age of reason, p.36

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