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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
The medicine chest of the soul.
The medicine chest of the soul.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.
Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where read more
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.
