An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

You have probably met both kinds of thinker. One writes warmly about how to live and makes you want to be better. The other takes the mind apart like a watch, and ordinary readers find it hard going. The warm kind wins more readers and stays famous longer.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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