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To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; as it is, the mere act of
purchasing them is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.
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Es wäre gut Bücher kaufen, wenn man die Zeit, sie zu lesen, mitkaufen könnte, aber man verwechselt meistens den Ankauf der Bücher mit dem Aneignen ihres Inhalts.