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"When an old man dies, a library burns down."
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"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. "
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"There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration."
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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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"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
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"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
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"Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library."
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"Nutrimentum spiritus food for the soul."
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"I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. "
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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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"The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries. "
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"To make a library
It takes two volumes
And a fire.
Two volumes and a fire,
And interest.
The interest alone will do
If logs are few."
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"Borrowers of books--those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes."
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"What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard."
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"Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed. "
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
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"For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye."
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"The library, with its tall bays and overhanging gallery, looked east and was already rather dark. Harriet found it restful."
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"As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her."
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"Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing."
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