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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Thomas Paine
Born: January 29, 1737
Died: June 8, 1809 (aged 72)
Bio: Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.
Known for:
- Common Sense (1776)
- Rights of Man (1791)
- The Age of Reason (1794)
- The American Crisis (1777)
- The Writings of Thomas Paine (1792)
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