"That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues."
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Beaumont and Fletcher, The Elder Brother, Act I, scene 2, line 177: Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 439-40.
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