One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. – Thomas Paine
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. – Thomas Paine
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. – Thomas Paine
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. – Thomas Paine
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one. – Thomas Paine
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. – Wislawa Szymborska