"Sunt qui quicquid in libris scriptum domi habent nosse sibi videantur cumque ulla de re mentio incidit, “hic liber” inquiunt “in armario meo est”: hoc tantum idque sufficere opinantes, quasi simul in pectore sit, elato supercilio conticescunt. Ridiculum genus!"
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“On the Abundance of Books,” pp. 39-40
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De remediis utriusque fortunae
1304 – 1374
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