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A great library contains the diary of the human race.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
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.
"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."
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. One read more
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very
speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance
round his book-shelves.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so read more
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.
Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.
