If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses …

Arthur Schopenhauer
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If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). 101 Facts of life, p.48, Publishdrive
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