#read

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed. ↗

— Maria Monk

#confession #constantly #detained #directed #enough

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fears #man #suffering #who

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#bring #double #general #likely #loss

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#cheap #entertainment #lasting #nor #pleasure

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#beautiful #open #ready #souls #things

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fears #shall #suffer #suffers #who

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#everyone #grasp #paper #pencil #piece

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#did #distress #hour #i #known

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it. ↗

— Michael Moore

#american #american public #anything #broken #convince

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that. ↗

— Michael Moore

#already #around #control #corporate #everything