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Carved over the door to the Lockport Public Library in Lockport, NJ.

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The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), VIII.

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You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

neil gaiman

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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

— Vol. 2 "On Books and Writing" as translated in Essays and Aphorisms (1970), as translated by R. J. Hollingdale.

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And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

Peter Ackroyd

— Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton, Chapter 5.

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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Laura Bush

— Laura Welch Bush, The 21st Century Elementary Library Media Program (2009) by Carl A. Harvey, p. 3

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There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends; always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.


— J. Donald Adams, New York Times, 1 April 1956.

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Library here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices and raise their minds.


— Richard Armour Light Armour, McGraw-Hill, 1954.

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I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.


— Jorge Luis Borges, in Dreamtigers [El hacedor : literal translation: The Maker] (1960)
— Variant translation: I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.

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Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.


— Saul Bellow; in "Him with His Foot in His Mouth", from Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984) [Penguin Classics, 1998, ISBN 0-141-18023-4], p. 11.

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

samuel johnson

— Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 106 (23 March 1751).

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What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists.


— Archibald MacLeish "The Premise of Meaning", American Scholar.

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A great public library, in its catalogue and its physical disposition of its books on shelves, is the monument of literary genres.


— Robert Melancon, quoted in World Literature Today, Spring 1982, p.231.

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My library was dukedom large enough.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611), Act I, scene ii, lines 109-110.

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The library is a symbol of freedom.


— Sara Sheridan NLS Newsletter (2011)[ ]

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They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?


— Sara Sheridan, "The Huffington Post", August 2013

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A great library contains the diary of the human race.


— Rev. George Dawson, Address on Opening the Birmingham Free Library.

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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), VIII.

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'Tis well to borrow from the good and great. 'Tis wise to learn. 'Tis God-like to create!

john godfrey saxe

— John Godfrey Saxe, The Library.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

cicero

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Your library makes our small corner of the world feel big.

Belle

— Emma Watson as Belle, Disney's Beauty and the Beast 2017

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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

walter cronkite

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