Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

"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."

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so read more

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

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.

Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
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Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
But thou art deeper read and better skilled:
Come and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens
Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.