The supposition, that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
David Hume · A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), bk. I, pt. iii, sec. xii
David Hume · A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), bk. I, pt. iii, sec. xii
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