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Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

David Hume

David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish philosopher. A Treatise of Human Nature, bk. 3, part 2, sect. 2, p. 536, ed. P. Nidditch, 2nd edition, New York, Oxford University Press (1978).

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