Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them.
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