![]() He later worked as an officer of the excise, hunting smugglers and collecting liquor and tobacco taxes. Some sources state he and his father were corset makers, but most historians cite this as an example of slanders spread by his enemies. At the age of 13, he began working with his father as stay maker (the thick rope stays used on sailing ships) in Thetford, a shipbuilding town. ![]() Paine received little formal education but did learn to read, write and perform arithmetic. Paine was born in Thetford, England, in 1737, to a Quaker father and an Anglican mother. "Common Sense," Paine's most influential piece, brought his ideas to a vast audience, swaying the otherwise undecided public opinion to the view that independence from the British was a necessity. ![]() ![]() Among them were "The Age of Reason," regarding the place of religion in society "Rights of Man," a piece defending the French Revolution and "Common Sense," which was published during the American Revolution. Thomas Paine was an influential 18th-century writer of essays and pamphlets. ![]()
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