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

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

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

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

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

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.

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

Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
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Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
But thou art deeper read and better skilled:
Come and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens
Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.

The medicine chest of the soul.

The medicine chest of the soul.

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

The richest minds need not large libraries.