Libraries

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.'

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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.

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The richest minds need not large libraries.

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The medicine chest of the soul.

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You receive this writing that you may know how to preserve the books which I shall deliver to you; and you shall set these in order and anoint them with oil of cedar and put them away in earthen vessels.

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Library And raise their minds.

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Libraries are as the shrines 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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Edward raises the pointer and places its tip against Alec’s forehead. “What’s the use of having a library in there if you won’t open the books, boy? What’s the good of augmented intelligence if you won’t use it?”

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That place that does containDeface their ill-placed statues.

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A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.

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

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I suppose you burned the library—barbarians always do.

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The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings.

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Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification.

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I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

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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.

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He showed me his fantastic library first, and that helped me warm to him a little. A guy with a room like that in his house couldn’t be all bad.

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All round the room my silent servants wait,My friends in every season, bright and dim.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. "Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit." (Literally: If you have a garden in your library, nothing will be lacking).

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A great library contains the diary of the human race.

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If humanity were to lose its libraries, not only would it be deprived of certain treasures of art, certain spiritual riches, but, more important still, it would lose its recipes for living.

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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. The library is the university.

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It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.

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We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. 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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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

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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.

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

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If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

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Librarians are literary semi-precious stones, who think they are crown jewels. **Bibliothekare sind literarische Halbedelsteine, die sich für Kronjuwelen halten.

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

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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.

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Libraries, as spaces, need to continue to inspire the public to dream big and to think great thoughts. Cities, towns, and academic communities of all shapes and sizes need the free, open public spaces that libraries–and only libraries–provide.

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People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.

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In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can’t be found on a shelf in the public library.

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I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,Knows the high art of what and how to read.

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

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When you steal from a library, you steal from everyone in the world.

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My library was dukedom large enough.

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Come, and take choice of all my library,And so beguile thy sorrow.

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The library is a symbol of freedom.

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

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A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

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Shelved around us lieThe mummied authors.

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Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safeWhere every book is thy epitaph.

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I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

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