The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
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Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
But thou art deeper read and better skilled:
Come and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens
Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future

Food for the soul.
[Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]

Food for the soul.
[Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]