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David Hume

Honour is a great check upon mankind: But where a considerable body of men act together, this check is, in a great measure, removed; since a man is sure to be approved of by his own party, for what promotes the common interest; and he soon learns to despise the clamours of adversaries.

David Hume, “Of The Independency of Parliament,” in Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741 – 2; 1748).

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