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In all matters of opinion and science... The difference among men is...oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars: and to be less in reality than in appearance. An explanation of the terms commonly ends the controversy; and the disputants are surprised to find, that they had been quarrelling, while at bottom they agreed in their judgement.

David Hume

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Hume, David. "Of the Standard of Taste." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1758, pt. 1, no. 23.

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Hume, David. "Of the Standard of Taste." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 1, no. 23.

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Opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape, into the calm, tho' obscure, regions of philosophy.

David Hume

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Hume, David. "The Natural History of Religion." Four Dissertations. London: A. Millar, 1757, sect. 15.

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David Hume. "The Natural History of Religion." A Dissertation on the Passions; The Natural History of Religion, edited by Tom Beauchamp. Clarendon, 2009, bk. 1, pt. 3, sect. 10.

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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson

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Johnson, Samuel. "Idler." Universal Chronicle, 19 May 1759, no. 57.

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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley

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Berkeley, George. "Maxims Concerning Patriotism." A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects. By the Bishop of Cloyne. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752.

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Wherever a knave is not punished, an honest man is laughed at.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Savile, George. "Of Punishment." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

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St. John, Henry. "Of the Study of History." Letters on the Study and Use of History. J. J. Tourneisen, 1788, letter 5.

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A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Carlo Goldoni

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Goldoni, Carlo. La Pamela [The Pamela]. 1750, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, Italy, act 1, sc. 16.

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In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu

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Montesquieu. Pensees et fragments inedits De Montesquieu [Thoughts and Unpublished Fragments of Montesquieu]. G. Gounouilhou, 1901.

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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and a little to be enjoyed.

Samuel Johnson

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

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Johnson, Samuel. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: R. and J. Dodsley/W. Johnston, 1759, ch. 11.

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Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 11.

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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Samuel Johnson

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Johnson, Samuel. The Rambler. London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 12 Mar. 1751.

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A known liar should be outlawed in a well-ordered government.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Savile, George. "Miscellaneous: Lying." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

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Education makes us what we are.

Claude Adrien Helvétius

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Helvétius, Claude-Adrien. De l'esprit [On the Mind]. Paris: Durand, 1758, essay 3, ch. 30.

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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

Amelia

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Fielding, Henry. Amelia. London: Andrew Millar, 1752, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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In a nation distracted by faction, there are, no doubt, always a few, though commonly but a very few, who preserve their judgment untainted by the general contagion. They seldom amount to more than here and there a solitary individual, without any influence, excluded by his own candour from the confidence of either party, and who, though he may be one of the wisest, is necessarily upon that very account one of the most insignificant men in the society.

Adam Smith

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Andrew Millar/Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759, pt. 3, sect. 3, ch. 3.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley. Penguin, 2010, pt. 3, sect. 3, ch. 3.

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Montagu, Lady Mary Worley. Letter to the Countess of Bute. 28 Jan. 1753.

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Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity.

George Louis Leclerc

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Leclerc, Georges-Louis. Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi [Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet]. Paris: Imprimerie royale, c. 1753.

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