When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a phrenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. (Thomas Paine)

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a phrenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Thomas Paine

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