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  • A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Five Orange Pips'.

  • Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

    -Jonathan Swift
      'Ode to DrWilliam Sancroft'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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