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The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.
The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.
Approximate author period: c. 1743 AD · early modern
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- David Hume
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- Approximate author period: c. 1743 AD · early modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1711 to 1776; Wikidata Q37160, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37160 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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