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" The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

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" For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. "

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" The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. "

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" Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. "

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" The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. "

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" Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. "

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" The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. "

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" Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. "

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" The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. "

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" Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! "

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