Vulgar words in An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Page 1)
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Let us suppose, if the prosperity of nations were laid on the one hand, and their ruin on the other, and he were desired to choose; that he would stand like the schoolman's ass, irresolute and undetermined, between equal motives; or rather, like the same ass between two pieces of wood or marble, without any inclination or propensity to either side.
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Who did ever say, except by way of irony, that such a one was a man of great virtue, but an egregious blockhead?