QuoteQuest“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: David Hume
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Part 2, Section 2
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Hume, David. (n.d.). Wikiquote: David Hume. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Hume
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