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Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)

Book by Thomas Paine · 4 quotes · Avarice, Common, Common Sense

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Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic) Quotes

“It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.”

“I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.”