From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom. ✨ Thomas Paine …

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From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom. ✨ Thomas Paine (2015). Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic), p.67, Library of America
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