"Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library."
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""Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.""
"He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse."
"Libraries should be open to all - except the censor."
"If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library."
"She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears."
"I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life."
"A man's library is a sort of harem."
"Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission."
"My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna."
"Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore."
"When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground."
"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me."
"... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump."
"The Library is the heart of the University."
"If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained."
"A library implies an act of faith."
"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."
"What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?"
"I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!"