Libraries

(203 votes)   There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

J. Donald Adams

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

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(158 votes)   My library was dukedom large enough.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(157 votes)   A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(131 votes)   The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: 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
1783-1859, American Author

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(124 votes)   Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author

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(124 votes)   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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(124 votes)   The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.

Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna
1583-1654, Swedish Statesman

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(123 votes)   An hour spent in the library is worth a month in the laboratory.

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(121 votes)   I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.

Alexander Smith
1830-1867, Scottish Poet, Author

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(120 votes)   Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

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(119 votes)   Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(118 votes)   A man's library is a sort of harem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(111 votes)   My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

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(111 votes)   There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.

Thomas L. Masson

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