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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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