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  • Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.

    Thomas Paine, John Dos Passos (2008). “The Essential Thomas Paine”, p.65, Courier Corporation
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