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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.

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A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

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A library implies an act of faith

A library implies an act of faith

by Victor Hugo Found in: Libraries Quotes,
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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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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.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Libraries Quotes,
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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),

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

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

by Ray Bradbury Found in: Libraries Quotes,
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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.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Libraries Quotes,
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The medicine chest of the soul.

The medicine chest of the soul.

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