“Here am I who have written on all sorts of subjects calculated to excite hostility, moral, political, and religious, and yet I have no enemies — except, indeed, all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.”

—  David Hume

Statement to a friend shortly before his death, as recounted in Men of Letters by Lord Henry Brougham

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Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian 1711–1776

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