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Quotation from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
“As liars, by the frequent repetition of their lies, come at last to remember them”
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part III, Sect. 9 (Project Gutenberg #4705)
Hume's example of how repetition alone can give a fiction the liveliness of a memory, part of his case that education and habit generate belief.
Citation: "As liars, by the frequent repetition of their lies, come at last to remember them" — David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part III, Sect. 9 (Project Gutenberg #4705). (id a-treatise-of-human-nature-q1)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
