"It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination."

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Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.

— David Hume