"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse."
"Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great abundance. Hence, the ideas of property become necessary in all civil society."
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Source: David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.411
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