“The sentiments of men often differ with regard to beauty and deformity of all kinds, even while their general discourse is the same … In all matters of opinion and science, the case is opposite: The difference among men is there oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance.”

— David Hume , book Four Dissertations

Four Dissertations (1757)

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Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian 1711–1776

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