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)

    Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me
    None of my books will show:
    I reade, and sigh, and wish I were a tree;
    George Herbert (1593–1633)