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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where read more
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great;
'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great;
'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of
diabolical knowledge.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of
diabolical knowledge.
The medicine chest of the soul.
The medicine chest of the soul.
