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  ...and vulgarity on the other. It is said that the most sociable of all people are the negroes; and they are at the bottom of the scale in intellect. I remember reading once in a French paper[2] that the blacks in North America, whether free or enslaved, are fond of shutting themselves up in large numbers in the smallest space, because they cannot have too much of one another's snub-nosed company.
[Footnote 1: Ecclesiasticus, xxii. 11.]
[Footnote 2: _Le Commerce_, Oct. 19th, 1837.] The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.   and leisure, that is, the time one has for the free enjoyment of one's consciousness or individuality, is the fruit or produce of the rest of existence, which is in general only labor and effort. But what does most people's leisure yield?--boredom and dullness; except, of course, when it is occupied with sensual pleasure or folly. How little such leisure is worth may be seen in the way in which it is spent: and, as Ariosto observes, how miserable are the idle hours of ignorant...   Schopenhauer, Arthur

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