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The calm philosophic Hume found that death only could interrupt the keen pleasure he was again receiving from Lucian, inspiring at the moment a humorous self-dialogue with Charon.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac