10 January 2008
The Birthday of Comon Sense
Filed under Books + Everything Else
Common Sense, the pamphlet by Thomas Paine, was published this day in that most weighty of American years, 1776.
IN the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves; that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day.
They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
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