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Buying books would...

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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.

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, ch. 23, sct. 296a, 1851.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer, (Feb 22 1788-1860), German philosopher; He was the philosopher of pessimism and an important exponent of a metaphysical anti-Hegelian doctrine of the will.


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