Meaner/books

Famous quotes containing the words meaner and/or books:

    “These hands do lack nobility that they strike
    A meaner than myself.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)