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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

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About Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was an English-born American writer and political pamphleteer whose works shaped revolutionary thought in the Atlantic world. He is best known for Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason.

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