“They began to consider the Aristocracy as a kind of fungus growing out of the corruption of society, that could not be admitted even as a branch of it…”

— Thomas Paine , book Rights of Man

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1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

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English and American political activist 1737–1809

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