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"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future
A library implies an act of faith
A library implies an act of faith
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a read more
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
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all
the souls of all read more
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 those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.
- Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.
Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.
