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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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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. – David Hume

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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. – David Hume

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. – David Hume

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Its not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. – Euripides

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Rare is the union of beauty and purity. – Juvenal

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