My library Was dukedom large enough.
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. Prospero's appeal to Miranda stands as one of literature's great statements of identity. In the midst of his divulgence of Antonio's faithlessness, Prospero describes himself as a man of letters, of virtue, and of character by selecting one word-library. Two centuries later, the old conspirators, Jefferson and Madison, are laying the foundations of the country they helped create by discussing every new available resource.