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Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.
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I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
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I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state up and help us lay your shoulders to the wheel better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.
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But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?
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A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
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