Famous quotes containing the words royal, alexandrian and/or library:
“These are not the artificial forests of an English king,—a royal preserve merely. Here prevail no forest laws but those of nature. The aborigines have never been dispossessed, nor nature disforested.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A man’s library is a sort of harem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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