Careful Words

library (n.)

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me

From mine own library with volumes that

I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

  A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 1.

  A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. v. Chap. viii. 1775.

My library

Was dukedom large enough.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.