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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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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.""

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"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."

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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump."

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Andrew Carnegie Industrialist, Philanthropist
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"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."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!"

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