If knowledge is power, a library card is the most valuable tool in the quest for a powerful mind.
This idea reminds me of a line from Good Will Hunting, in which Matt Damon's character Will is a brilliant, but impoverished, kid from Southie in Boston. After a heated discussion with a Harvard grad student in a bar, in which the student quotes a text and tries to pass it off as his own original thought, Will calls him out on the plagiarism and states:
"See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a f***in' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library."
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