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All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.
All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.
The medicine chest of the soul.
The medicine chest of the soul.
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.
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.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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.
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 quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
