"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."
-David Hume
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"There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.“
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