“Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.”
Source: The Tempest
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William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
Self-Question, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. ”
"Lines for a Worthy Person", Ballads for Broadbrows (1930).
Source: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), Ch. 8, Library
Context: I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.
Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
