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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

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David Hume
Age: 65 †
Born: 1711
Born: April 26
Died: 1776
Died: August 25
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