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The Cheapness Of Wine Seems To Be A Cause, Not Of Drunkenness, But Of Sobriety. ...people Are Seldom Guilty Of Excess In What Is Their Daily Fare... On The Contrary, In The Countries Which, Either From Excessive Heat Or Cold, Produce No Grapes, And Where Wine Consequently Is Dear And A Rarity, Drunkenness Is A Common Vice.

No Society Can Surely Be Flourishing And Happy, Of Which The Far Greater Part Of The Members Are Poor And Miserable. It Is But Equity, Besides, That They Who Feed, Clothe And Lodge The Whole Body Of The People, Should Have Such A Share Of The Produce Of Their Own Labour As To Be Themselves Tolerably Well Fed, Clothed And Lodged.

In The Long-run The Workman May Be As Necessary To His Master As His Master Is To Him, But The Necessity Is Not So Immediate.

Ask Any Rich Man Of Common Prudence To Which Of The Two Sorts Of People He Has Lent The Greater Part Of His Stock, To Those Who, He Thinks, Will Employ It Profitably, Or To Those Who Will Spend It Idly, And He Will Laugh At You For Proposing The Question.

Poor David Hume Is Dying Fast, But With More Real Cheerfulness And Good Humor And With More Real Resignation To The Necessary Course Of Things, Than Any Whining Christian Ever Dyed With Pretended Resignation To The Will Of God.