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Famous quotes containing the words thomas and/or paine:

    “Great is the hand that holds dominion over
    Man by a scribbled name.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)