Quotation by Thomas Paine

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809), Anglo-American political theorist, writer. Common Sense (1777).

Written as part of a series of pamphlets and entitled The American Crisis III and signed Common Sense.
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