Tom Paine

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    New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in the old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.
    John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)

    What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)