Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a c… — Arthur Helps

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Arthur HelpsHistorian · British · 1813 – 1875

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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. — Arthur Helps
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