Thomas Paine's (APS 1785) Words of Wisdom

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“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

Thomas Paine (1737-1809), a philosopher and statesman, is best known for the publication of Common Sense in 1776, a galvanizing text of the American Revolution. Given a platform to spread his writings by his printing mentor Benjamin Franklin, he was recognized and remembered as one of the most influential minds of the Revolution. 
 

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