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Thomas Paine - They began to consider the Aristocracy...
They began to consider the Aristocracy as a kind of fungus growing out of the corruption of society, that could not be admitted even as a branch of it... (Thomas Paine)

They began to consider the Aristocracy as a kind of fungus growing out of the corruption of society, that could not be admitted even as a branch of it...

Thomas Paine

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