QuoteQuest“As to the Approbation or Esteem of those Blockheads who call themselves the Public, & whom a Bookseller, a Lord, a Priest, or a Party can guide, I do most heartily despise it.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: David Hume
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Letter 138, To Gilbert Elliot of Minto; August 9, 1757
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