"The consequence of a very free commerce between……" — David Hume
"The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry."
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216 Quotes by David Hume
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that…
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More Commerce Quotes
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
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I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common…
— Joe Barton
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
— Jeff Bezos
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with…
— Daniel Boone
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering…
— Les Brown
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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in…
— James Buchan
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
— Anthony Burgess
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are…
— George Canning
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A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio…
— John Jay Chapman
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