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    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),

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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.

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

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

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The medicine chest of the soul.

The medicine chest of the soul.

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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

by Mark Twain Found in: Libraries Quotes,
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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.

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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.

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I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
If one be better with them or without,--
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I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
If one be better with them or without,--
Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,
Knows the high art of what and how to read.

by J.g. Saxe Found in: Libraries Quotes,
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A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

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A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows.

A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Libraries Quotes,
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