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“A daughter of Eve ... had better be fifty leagues offor in her warm bedor playing with a case-knifeor any thing you pleasethan make a man the object of her attention, when the house and all the furniture is her own.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Thus all probable reasoning is nothing but a species of sensation. Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy, When I am convincd of any principle, tis only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.”
—David Hume (17111776)
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