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Quotes from The Case of the Officers of Excise — Thomas Paine

1737–1809 England

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Eloquence may strike the ear, but the language of poverty strikes the heart; the first may charm like music, but the second alarms like a knell.

The Case of the Officers of Excise (1772)

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