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  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• A great library contains the diary of the human race.

  Geraldine Dawson

  Race, Library, Diaries

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• A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Book, School

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• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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

  Germaine Greer

  Home, Library, World

  Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)

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• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Educational, Book

  To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Reading, Book, Ideas

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Office, Democracy, Library

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  My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  Malcolm X

  Life, Education, Book

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

  RuPaul

  Change, Naps, Tough Times

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Vanity, Expectations

  'The Rambler' no. 106 (23 March 1751)

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Past

  Speech by Minister Pallo Jordan on launch of the South African Library Week at the Bessie Head Public Library, Msunduzi Minicipality, Pietermaritzburg, www.dac.gov.za. March 14, 2009.

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• A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  Germaine Greer

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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  Libraries are our friends.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

  Heraclitus

  Education, Book, Reading

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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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• With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  Doris May Lessing (1992). “African laughter: four visits to Zimbabwe”

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• Libraries are the future of reading.

  Courtney Milan

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Xenophobia, Book

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• I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

  John le Carre

  Reading, Book, Men

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• A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Taken, Reading

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