False Preference

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    Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.
    David Hume (1711–1776)