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"Eating and Drinking"
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"Hume, David (1711-1776)"
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"Prose"
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Date: 1742, 1777
"Away then with all those vain pretences of making ourselves happy within ourselves, of feasting on our own thoughts, of being satisfied with the consciousness of well-doing, and of despising all assistance and all supplies from external objects."
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