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Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain, 1737-1809) was an English-born American Founding Father, inventor and political philosopher, who was also involved in the French Revolution. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and helped to inspire the colonial era patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of human rights.
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