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)
“I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has, and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)