Or is the gloomy pride of man become so intolerable, that nothing can flatter it but a sacrifice of the Creator? (Thomas Paine)

Or is the gloomy pride of man become so intolerable, that nothing can flatter it but a sacrifice of the Creator?

Thomas Paine

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