I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

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Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.
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If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
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For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
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Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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You (demagogues) are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it’s only in troublous times that you line your pockets.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
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Winning without problem is just victory, but winning with lots of trouble create History.
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I don’t thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.