Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around the clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity... The unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
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Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
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The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den
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If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to allexcept the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
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I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.
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A library implies an act of faith
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, Where's the self-help section? She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them
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Your library is your portrait.
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To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.
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What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
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Some men have only one book in them, others a library
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Libraries are not made, they grow
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