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"If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read."
"One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library."
"If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby."
"I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer."
"Don't forget to support your public library."
"Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow."
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
"I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library."
"[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore."
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
"Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship."
"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night."
"Once you read, you will be free forever."
"Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful."
"There is no problem a library card can't solve."
"Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers."
"Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over."
"Meek young men grow up in libraries."
"I taught myself more in the library than school taught me."
"Without the library, you have no civilization."
