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Libraries Quotes
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It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. (Quote by - Lesley Conger)
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. (Quote by - Archibald MacLeish)
I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. (Quote by - Sholem Asch)
All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim. (Quote by - Barry Cornwall)
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. (Quote by - Joseph Howe)
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
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. (Quote by - J.G. Saxe)
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner. (Quote by - Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna)
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. (Quote by - Cicero)
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. (Quote by - John Lubbock)