On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
It defeats even its pretended end, and becomes in time the opposite of what is noble in man.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “It defeats even its pretended end, and becomes in time the opposite of what is noble in man.”
Editor's note · Context
Paine argues that aristocracy ultimately betrays its own claims of nobility, transforming into the antithesis of human virtue.
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