„Sehen Sie, was seine vorherrschenden Leidenschaften und vorherrschenden Neigungen sind“

Brief an Adam Smith vom 8. Oktober 1767, in: The Correspondence of Adam Smith, Oxford University Press 1987 [Reprint 2001]. S. 135 Übers.: Wikiquote
"Thus you see, he is a Composition of Whim, Affectation, Wickedness, Vanity, and Inquietude, with a very small, if any, Ingredient of Madness. [...] The ruling Qualities abovementioned, together with Ingratitude, Ferocity, and Lying, I need not mention, Eloquence and Invention — form the whole of the Composition."
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