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"It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week."
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"A great library contains the diary of the human race."
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"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting."
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"The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. "
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"A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows."
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"A library is thought in cold storage."
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"Your library is your portrait."
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"He loved this street [42nd Street], not for the people or the shops but for the stone lions that guarded the great main building of the Public Library, a building filled with books and unimaginably vast, and which he had never yet dared to enter."
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"Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging."
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"Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something."
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"Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It's all available. All you have to do is go to the library."
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"A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone."
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"No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy. "
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"We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth."
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"Man, who would have thought being a librarian could be so tough?"
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
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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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"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."
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"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end."
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"A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a public library...without cost to the reader."
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