People do not understand what it costs in time and suffering to learn how to read. I have been working at it for eighty years, and I still can't say that I've succeeded.


Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann (1850), Entry Date: January 25, 1830


People do not understand what it costs in time and suffering to learn how to read. I have been working at it for eighty years, and I still can't say...

People do not understand what it costs in time and suffering to learn how to read. I have been working at it for eighty years, and I still can't say...

People do not understand what it costs in time and suffering to learn how to read. I have been working at it for eighty years, and I still can't say...

People do not understand what it costs in time and suffering to learn how to read. I have been working at it for eighty years, and I still can't say...