“Reading's my reward at the end of the day”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Adolf Hitler book Mein Kampf
Source: Mein Kampf
“With mortal crisis doth portend
My days to appropinque an end.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto III, line 589
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“This too can be endured, though it is hard:
A lover in the end has his reward.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Premio al ben servire
Pur viene al fin, se ben tarda a venire.
Canto XXXI, stanza 3 (tr. B. Reynolds)
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John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Salon interview (2000)
Context: In the old movies, yes, there always was the happy ending and order was restored. As it is in Shakespeare's plays. It's no disgrace to, in the end, restore order. And punish the wicked and, in some way, reward the righteous.