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As for his overall philosophy, Thomas Paine would sum it up centuries later when he wrote that some people seem to think it an expression of humility to call “the fertile earth a dunghill, and all the blessings of life by the thankless name of vanities.” Instead, in Paine’s opinion, it looks more like ingratitude.
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