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Description
Written prior to the revolutionary war, "Common Sense" was a widely distributed phamphlet that argued for the complete independence of America from Britain. Its importance in terms of American history cannot by understated. The influence that this publication had on the American sentiment... read more
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“The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered.”
Thomas Paine
First Sentence
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom.
Table of Contents
Series
This book is in the Penguin Classics series.
Authors & Contributors
- Thomas Paine (Author)
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