John Davies (poet) (1569–1626) English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569
Stanza 44.
Nosce Teipsum (1599)
“Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.”
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