Full Name: David Hume
Born: 1711
Died: 1776
Hometown: Edinburgh, Scotland
Fave Subjects: Truth, Knowledge, Understanding, Minds and Bodies, How to Be Good, Power, Beauty
Career Highlights:
- one of the first famous essay writers
- started university at the age of 12
- wrote fifteen books, one of which was a best-seller in England
- such a good guy that even his enemies liked him
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