David Hume Quote

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.


Essays, moral, political, and literary (ed. 1779)


It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which ...

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which ...

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which ...

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which ...