As to the Approbation or Esteem of those Blockheads who call themselves the Public, & whom a Bookseller, a Lord, a Priest, or a Party can guide, I do most heartily despise it.
Empiricism, skepticism
Letter to Gilbert Elliot of Minto
1757 (approximate)
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