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Thomas Paine: Who can say that the happiness of mankind made no part of the motives which produced the alliance?

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Who can say that the happiness of mankind made no part of the motives which produced the alliance?
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Thomas Paine

Editor's note · Context

He questions whether the pursuit of human happiness was a factor in forming alliances.

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