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«One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe»
Author: Thomas Paine
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absurdities, credit, credulity, fanaticism, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, loaded, obtained, priestcraft, scripture, vulgar
«It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.»
«Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch»
«Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and the infant, and give top liberty a land to live in? Then must taxation, as the means by which these things are done, be popular likewi»
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debts, do justice, infant, insulted, taxation
«Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society»
«What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.»
«Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men who can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance»
«But such is the nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing irresistible»
«Time makes more converts than reason.»
«Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.»
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