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David Hume

Author · Philosopher 1711–1776

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Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)

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“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.”

“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”