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Three Quotes by David Hume
- Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.
- 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…
- Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to…
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