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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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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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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. – 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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Beauty comes from a life well lived. If youve lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines arent too bad, what more do you need? – Jennifer Garner

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Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherines beauty and Renees frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were. – Colleen Atwood

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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. – Victor Hugo

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