Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.”
“Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.”
Source: Demon Lord of Karanda
“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
“Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.”
West Ohio Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (No.2), 294 U.S. 79, 82, (1935)
Judicial opinions
“The white sheet of repentance is a very poor substitute for a mainsail.”
On the reunion of the Liberal Party; speech to the Oxford University New Reform Club (22 June 1923), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 69
Leader of the National Liberal Party
“It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.”
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
“The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.”
“A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably.”
Kamala Suraiyya Das (Wages of Love)
Sissy Diaries: The Harsh Realities of Dating for Gender-Nonconforming Femmes https://www.them.us/story/sissy-diaries-dating-while-nonbinary (April 25, 2018).
