Meaner/books

Famous quotes containing the words meaner and/or books:

    “this scythe that mows down kings
    Exempts no meaner mortal things.”
    —Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

    “Certain books seem to have been written not for the purpose that we learn something from them but that we know that the author was a knowledgeable person.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)