“Poor David Hume is dying very fast, but with great cheerfuln…”

“Poor David Hume is dying very fast, but with great cheerfulness and good humour and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things then any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.”

— Adam Smith

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Title: Wikiquote: Adam Smith
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Letter to Alexander Wedderburn 14 August 1776. The Correspondence of Adam Smith edited by E.C. Mossner and Ian Simpson Ross, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press 1986. The Future Hope in Adam Smith’s System, Paul Oslington

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Smith, Adam. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Adam Smith. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Smith

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