On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
We are a people who think not as you think; and what is equally true, you cannot feel as we feel.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “We are a people who think not as you think; and what is equally true, you cannot feel as we feel.”
Editor's note · Context
Paine asserts the profound divergence in thought and emotion between the American colonists and the British.
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