an english-born american, wrote a pamphlet called common sense, which sold 150,000 copies in just a few months because his arguments were so popular. "there is something very absurd," he wrote, "in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.... england belongs to europe, america to itself."
150,000 copies in 2 months = 2,000,000 copies in 2 months 'today'
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