“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom,”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.”
― The Christmas Sweater
― The Christmas Sweater
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