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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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My library was dukedom large enough.
William Shakespeare
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
Jorge Luis Borges
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.
Samuel Johnson
I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.
Luigi Barzini
Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
Thomas Jefferson
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
Henry Ward Beecher
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me.
Anatole France
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.
Archibald MacLeish, The Premise
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.
Stephen Leacock
The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
Washington Irving, The SketchBoo
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins, American Library
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl Rowan, In American Librarie
Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
Neil Gaiman
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
Barbara Tuchman
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.
Louis Macneice
