“When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book.”
Craig Nelson
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
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