Among other things, I ordered a piece, from twenty to thirty yards long, of white linen, thread, scissors, needles, storax, myrrh, sulphur, olive oil, camphor, one ream of paper, pens and ink, twelve sheets of parchment, brushes, and a branch of olive tree to make a stick of eighteen inches in length.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
What is one-fifty for such a ream of wisdom as we're going to get for our money?
"Paul and the Printing Press"
Sara Ware Bassett
When 500 copies of a work are to be printed, each sheet of it requires one ream of paper.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage