Thomas Paine

Puzzles

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Thomas Paine?

  • → Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
  • → Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
  • → Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
  • → These are the times that try men's souls.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Thomas Paine.

  • → An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
  • → Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
  • → By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
  • → A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Thomas Paine.

  • → The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
  • → The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
  • → We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
  • → The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Thomas Paine. Which one?

  • → The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
  • → A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
  • → The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
  • → You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Thomas Paine?

  • → Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
  • → Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
  • → To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
  • → He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Thomas Paine?

  • → To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
  • → To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
  • → A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
  • → The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Thomas Paine.

  • → Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
  • → It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
  • → Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
  • → The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Thomas Paine. Which one?

  • → Human nature is not of itself vicious.
  • → An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
  • → Woe be to him that reads but one book.
  • → High thoughts must have high language.
  
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