Primary Sources: Excerpts from Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" Which two of the following sentences from the article include central ideas of the article?

1. In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense;...
2. But the injuries and disadvantages, which we sustain by that connection are without number.
3. As Europe is our market for trade, we ought to form no partial connection with any part of it.
4. The business of it will soon be too weighty and complex to be managed by a power so distant from us, and so very ignorant of us.

A) 1 and 2

B) 3 and 4

C) 1 and 3

D) 2 and 4