“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt , book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)
Context: He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

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Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer 1930–2009

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