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Thomas Paine@thomas-paine Β· January 1776
Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.
β Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
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