Somebody once commended Richard Petty on his “good luck” after a race, Petty replied “son, there is no such thing as good luck, when opportunity meets preparation good things happen”
Thomas Paine had been a Corset maker, pirate, preacher, teacher tobacco retailer, tax collector and even a diplomat ….as I read this I thought man this guy sound like an Aquarian? so I looked up his bd, sure enough Feb9 one day before mine…some people call it being eclectic some call it irresponsible, hahahaha. I guess we can say about Thomas is that he was “uniquely qualified to write common sense.
Judging by its success and effects we must say yae in the affirmative. It has been well documented that Common Sense lifted the soldiers’ spirits that fateful Pennsylvania winter. One hundred and fifty thousand copies were sold among a population of 4million and read to all revolutionary soldier, that comes out to about 4% of the population…in today’s numbers that would be 1,200,000 books or webpage hits. However, I really think that due to the snow ball effect of technology it would easily double that! It would easily make the New York’s best seller list!
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