Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ✨ Arthur Schopenh…

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays, Cosimo, Inc.
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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). On the Suffering of the World, p.11, Penguin UK
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The word of man is the most durable of all material. ✨ Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 25, sect. 298, 1851.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays, Cosimo, Inc.

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