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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
Philosopher
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Danzig
Giving
Moral
Enables
Years
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Text
Life
Understand
Birthday
Next
Forty
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Connection
Furnish
Give
Thirty
Beauties
Firsts
Connections
Commentary
First
Meaning
Rightly

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