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Thomas Paine's Common Sense

In Our Time

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The Life and Times of Cassie Payne

Even when Payne had become notorious for his political and religious views, there was still an effort to recognize him by other founding fathers of what he'd done. After the revolution, Jefferson, Madison and also George Washington are keen to try to get some money to Payne because they know he's never made money from common sense. He sold it and didn't make a penny from it. But now that in fact, speed around the track before we come to an end of what we are doing, he then tried to build bridges, failed, went, became part of the French Revolution,. objected to the guillotine of the king, just escaped being guillotined himself. Came back to America

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