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Thomas Paine: He lives immured within the Bastille of a word, and surveys at a distance the envied life of man.

On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
He lives immured within the Bastille of a word, and surveys at a distance the envied life of man.
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Thomas Paine

Editor's note · Context

Paine describes how aristocratic titles trap individuals in an artificial existence, separating them from genuine human experience.

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