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Hume

(David), the historian, takes the lead among modern philosophical sceptics. His great argument is this: It is more likely that testimony should be false than that miracles should be true. (1711-1776.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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