On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
What are the little sufferings of the present day, compared with the hardships that are past?
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “What are the little sufferings of the present day, compared with the hardships that are past?”
Editor's note · Context
In "The American Crisis," Paine poses a rhetorical question to minimize current difficulties by comparing them to greater past hardships, encouraging perseverance.
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