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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer Counsels and Maxims (The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer)
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Counsels and Maxims (The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer)

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