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What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
Category: Libraries Author: Archibald MacLeish
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Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.
Category: Libraries Source: Library at Thebes
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A library is thought in cold storage.
Category: Libraries Author: Herbert Samuel
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Category: Libraries Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Category: Libraries Author: Lady Bird Johnson
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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.
Category: Libraries Author: Erma Bombeck
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A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
Category: Libraries Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Category: Libraries Author: Timothy Healy
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A man's library is a sort of harem.
Category: Libraries Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
Category: Libraries Author: John Lubbock
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My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
Category: Libraries Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Category: Libraries Author: Cicero
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Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.
Category: Libraries Author: William Dyer
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Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
Category: Libraries Author: Richard Armour
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A great library contains the diary of the human race.
Category: Libraries Author: George Mercer Dawson
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I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.
Category: Libraries Author: Sholem Asch
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The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.
Category: Libraries Author: Malcolm Forbes
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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.
Category: Libraries Author: Joseph Howe
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Category: Libraries Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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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.
Category: Libraries Author: Andrew Carnegie
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