Thomas Paine
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born
January 29, 1737
died
June 08, 1809
gender
male
place of birth
Thetford, England, The United Kingdom
genre
Politics, Nonfiction
about this author
Thomas Paine was an author, pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, intellectual and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was born in England and lived and worked there until age 37, when he emigrated to the British American colonies, in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely-read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American Crisis (1776–1783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series.
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine avg rating 3.98 — 1,085 ratings — published 1776 72 editions |
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Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine avg rating 4.08 — 473 ratings — published 1791 3 editions |
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The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine avg rating 4.11 — 354 ratings — published 1794 38 editions |
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Rights of Man by Thomas Paine avg rating 4.01 — 189 ratings — published 1791 40 editions |
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Collected Writings: Common Sense/The Crisis/Rights of Man/The Age of Reason/Pamphlets/Articles & Letters by Thomas Paine avg rating 4.31 — 152 ratings — published 1995 |
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Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings by Thomas Paine avg rating 3.92 — 26 ratings — published 1995 3 editions |
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Common Sense and Other Writings by Thomas Paine avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 1776 4 editions |
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Rights of Man and Common Sense by Thomas Paine avg rating 3.84 — 19 ratings — published 1989 5 editions |
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The Crisis by Thomas Paine avg rating 3.79 — 19 ratings — published 1776 6 editions |
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The Thomas Paine Reader by Thomas Paine, Isaac Kramnick avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1987 |
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"The world is my country,
all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion."
— Thomas Paine
all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion."
— Thomas Paine
"Attempting to debate with a person who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead."
— Thomas Paine
— Thomas Paine
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