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Are there not miseries enough in the world, too difficult to be encountered and too pointed to be borne, without studying to enlarge the list and arming it with new destruction?
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Thomas Paine
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Editor's note · Context
Paine questions the necessity of adding to the world's miseries when there are already many to confront.
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