A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. - Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine: "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."

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Appearance	Converts	Custom	Defense
Formidable	Gives	Habit	Long
Makes	Outcry	Raises	Reason
Right	Soon	Subsides	Superficial
Thing	Thinking	Time	Tumult
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