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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

  Jim Hightower

  Country, Fighting, Civilization

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• Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

  Jesse Shera

  Law, Two, Six Months

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• My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

  David Mamet

  Chicago, Alma Mater, Public Library

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• I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Art, Doubt, Use

  John Godfrey Saxe (1871). “Poems”, p.297

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• The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

  William Osler

  Book, Thinking, Dragons

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics

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• In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

  Germaine Greer

  Home, World, Librarian

  Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)

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  When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

  Keith Richards

  Inspirational, God, Growing Up

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards and James Fox, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

  George Dyer

  Book, Literature, Lovers

  George Dyer (1814). “History of the University and colleges of Cambridge: including notices relating to the founders and eminent men”, p.6

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• 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

  Morning, Army, Night

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

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• I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Taken, Bliss, Distraction

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• An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

  Stephen Fry

  Funny, Witty, Book

  Stephen Fry (2010). “The Liar”, p.54, Random House

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  The most violent element in society is ignorance.

  Emma Goldman

  Peace, Educational, Book

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.33, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Powerful, Book

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 6 Apr. 1775)

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• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 6 Apr. 1775)

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Reading, Entertainment

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Years, Paris

  Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

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  It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

  John Waters

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2000.

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• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.

  Clarence Day

  Book, Fall, Heart

  "The Story of the Yale University Press Told by a Friend". Book by Clarence day, 1920.

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• I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Home, Mean

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• Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Beer

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.15, Orient Blackswan

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• I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

  Sholem Asch

  Book, Air, Magnificent

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• I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924".

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