Literary Dedication Quotes

“Dear reader, mon frère, increasingly rare, and less and less willing to descend into the depths of unknown literature to find the new, remember well that, as the great Voltaire said, some sentences are worth more than entire libraries, and to quote Prospero, Me, poor man, my library was a dukedom large enough!... So, of his gentleness, knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me from my own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom!”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“When you are about to trample on others, think that you will soon be trampled upon.”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown