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en-wikipedia-org-4473		Common Sense - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5015	489	65	Common Sense[1] is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Paine also granted publishing rights to nearly every imprint which requested them, including several international editions.[17] It was immensely popular in France, where it was published without its diatribes against monarchy.[18] At least one newspaper printed the entire pamphlet: the Connecticut Courant in its issue of February 19, 1776.[19] Writing in 1956, Richard Gimbel estimated, in terms of circulation and impact, that an "equivalent sale today, based on the present population of the United States, would be more than six-and-one-half million copies within the short space of three months".[17] He and Bell timed the first edition to be published at around the same time as a proclamation on the colonies by King George III, hoping to contrast the strong, monarchical message with the heavily anti-monarchical Common Sense.[10] Luckily, the speech and the first advertisement of the pamphlet appeared on the same day within the pages of the Pennsylvania Evening Post.[25]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4473.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4473.txt