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)
“If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)