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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. ↗

— David Hume

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. ↗

— David Hume

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Truth springs from argument amongst friends. ↗

— David Hume

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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. ↗

— David Hume

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. ↗

— David Hume

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Everything in the world is purchased by labor. ↗

— David Hume

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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. ↗

— David Hume

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Men often act knowingly against their interest. ↗

— David Hume

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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

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