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“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Wikiquote: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Context

As attributed in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 624

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Arthur Schopenhauer. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer

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