"This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library."
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"Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations."
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"I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink."
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"To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books."
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"My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman."
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"Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?"
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"Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough."
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"Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world."
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"Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning."
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"It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed,' although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well."
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"I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money."
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"To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?"
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"He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going."
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"A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard."
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"Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism."
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"If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future."
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"Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed."
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"Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable."
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"Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore."
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"The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library."
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