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— David Hume"It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work"
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We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.
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Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
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