To be diverted from a troublesome idea I need only have recourse to books: they easily turn my thoughts to themselves and steal away the others… I cannot tell you what ease and repose I find when I reflect that they [books] are at my side to give me pleasure at my own time, and when I recognize how much assistance they bring to my life. It is the best provision I have found for this human journey.
— Michel de Montaigne
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