Thomas Paine. (2024, January 2). Wikiquote. Retrieved March 29, 2024 from https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine&oldid=3435575.
And, during the nine subsequent years, I did nothing but roam from one place to another, desirous of being a spectator rather than an actor in the plays exibited on the theatre of the world; and, as I made it my business in each matter to reflect particularly upon what might fairly be doubted and prove a source of error, I gradually rooted out from my mind all the errors which had hitherto crept into it.