Meaner/books

Famous quotes containing the words meaner and/or books:

    “I don’t like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meaner than I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “My books and instruments shall be my company,
    On them to look and practise by myself.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)