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David Hume Quotes: Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
         

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.


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