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)
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;Mvainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)