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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.
— Thomas Paine
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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