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Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
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