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Now, let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go.

Tonight let's continue with more from an American classic, Common Sense by Thomas Payne, first published in 1776.

Let's pick up right where we left off with his thoughts on the present state of American affairs.

Let's begin. In the following pages, I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain

arguments, and common sense, and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader,

then that he will divest himself of prejudice and pre-possession and suffer his reason and his feelings to

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