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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.
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.
The medicine chest of the soul.
The medicine chest of the soul.
 All round the room my silent servants wait,
 My friends in every season, bright and dim.  
 All round the room my silent servants wait,
 My friends in every season, bright and dim. 
 It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by 
getting a great library.  
 It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by 
getting a great library. 
 Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient 
saints, full of true virtue, and that read more 
 Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient 
saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or 
imposture, are preserved and reposed. 
 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), 
 Food for the soul.
 [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]  
 Food for the soul.
 [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.] 
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.