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is a bookseller in Paris, one Dessain, who has some Character, but who has
play'd me a very ugly Trick... [He] will neither send over my Books, nor answer
my Letters not take any Notice of me....Tell him I shall prosecute him either
myself on my Return to Paris or by Order, if he does not send over my Books
& Money."
David Hume, letter to Adam Smith, August, 1766
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think you will find true, and there we will leave it, to those who sully them
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John Locke, letter to Anthony Collins, June 9, 1704
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