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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.

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It often happens, that after we have lived a considerable time in any city; however at first it might be disagreeable to us; yet as we become familiar with the objects, and contact an acquaintance, though merely with the streets and buildings, the aversion diminishes by degrees, and at last changes into the opposite passion.

 For example, a man who is young cannot at the same time be old; but the same man can very well be at one time young, and at another not young, that is, old. After it is once established by these conventions, it is naturally attended with a strong sentiment of morals; which can proceed from nothing but our sympathy with the interests of society. From these three relations we are apt to confound our ideas, and imagine we can form the idea of a time and duration, without any change or succession.