“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
"Now Boarding At Any Newspaper, Magazine Or Book", http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-10-28/news/9810280139_1_reading-eskimo-woman-places Chicago Tribune, 28 October 1998; reprinted in The Best of Mary Schmich (2012) as "A Discount Ticket to Everywhere".
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Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 194.

“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”
The New Yorker, April 7, 1956.

“Poverty puts crime at a discount.”
La pauvreté met le crime au rabais.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #312
Reflections; alternately translated as: "Poverty sets a reduced price on crime"; in The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962).

“People disagreeing everywhere you look
Makes you wanna stop and read a book”
Song lyrics, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II (1971), Watching the River Flow

“It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores.”
On the White House; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin

Fahrkarte bis zur Endstation.
Shouted to his Panzertroops as they were passing him, indicating that they should go as far as they could; as quoted in Panzerkrieg : The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Tank Divisions (2002) by Peter McCarthy and Mike Syron, p. 83