“Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.”
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.