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Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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There was never a good war, or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin

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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor mens cottage princes palaces. – William Shakespeare

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. – Arnold H. Glasow

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. – Lord Chesterfield

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