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Quotation from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
“I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends”
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 7 (Conclusion of this Book) (Project Gutenberg #4705)
The ordinary pleasures that dissolve Hume's sceptical crisis; after a few hours his speculations seem cold and ridiculous.
Citation: "I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends" — David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 7 (Conclusion of this Book) (Project Gutenberg #4705). (id a-treatise-of-human-nature-q9)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
