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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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It is only a mans own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone elses meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. – 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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isnt isolated, something is wrong. – Orson Welles

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This battle for common-sense gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, gun control legislation. Good news – if youre a crook. – Larry Elder

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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. – Thomas Carlyle

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When good Americans die they go to Paris. – Oscar Wilde

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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. – English Proverb

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