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common sense
Title: common sense
Category: History
Details: Words: 5207 | Pages: 22.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
common sense
PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet
sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a
thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a
formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes
more converts than reason.
As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right
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…showed last 75 words of 5207 total…of oppression. Men who look upon themselves
born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of
mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in
differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of
knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently
the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
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