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"I went over to France, with a view of prosecuting my studies in a country retreat;  and I there laid that plan of life, which I have steadily and successfully pursued.  I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency,  and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature."

-David Hume,  My Own Life, 1777