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David Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature, vol. II., pt. III., sect. X. (ed. T. H. Green & T. H. Grose, London: Longmans, 1882, pp. 226-7):
Human life is so tiresome a scene, and men generally are of such indolent dispositions, that whatever amuses them, tho’ by a passion mixt with pain, does in the main give them a sensible pleasure.
Thomas Carlyle, ‘‘German Literature of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (1831),’’ in Critical and Miscellaneaous Essays (New York: J...
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