- David Hume
(05/07/1711 – 08/25/1776)
Scottish philosopher
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"I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
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"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."
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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
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"I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous."
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| "Poets are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts." |  |
"Looked like she was a cold dish with a man until you got her pants down, then she'd explode."
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"If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing."
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| "Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult." |  |
"There's a big difference between confidence and conceit."
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"If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink."
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"I am just a guy who plays drums."
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"He's the kind of guy that would be really sweet to a girl and bring her flowers, but still take a pee in the alley."
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