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Quote by David Hume
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reaso

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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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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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. – David Hume

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It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty. – Alfred Jarry

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. – John Keats

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