"The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library."
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"The richest minds need not large libraries."
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"It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth."
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"The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence."
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"The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought."
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"Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?"
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"In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes."
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"You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life."
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"The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day."
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"As a child I spent a lot of time at the library."
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"The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential."
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"Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume."
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"I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number."
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"I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries."
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"The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness."
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"The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription."
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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy"
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"Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct."
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"In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense."
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