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" To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

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" It is only a man's 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 else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. "

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