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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

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