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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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• Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Book, Reading, Library

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

  E. B. White

  Book, Happy Times, People

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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

  Shelby Foote

  Educational, Book, Reading

  North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 51-54, 1993.

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• A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

  E. B. White

  Book, Library, May

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• If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

  Wendell H. Ford

  Democracy, Library, Information

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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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• If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Beauty

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

  B. F. Skinner

  Inspiring, Education, Book

  "B. F. Skinner: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans, p. 73, 1968.

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• When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Reading, Library

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

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• Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Beer

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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• Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Home, Government, Library

  "Internet regulation 'a threat to civil liberties'" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2000.

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• In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Library, Paper

  "Society and Solitude and Other Essays".

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• If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history."

  Quiara Alegria Hudes

  Book, Library, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But the way the library books are measured are by how many books are taken out. And people in poor communities sometimes won't take the book out because they're afraid to. They're afraid of losing it and not being able to replace it.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Taken, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I was curious about they'd get for me from the library. Books were a kind of a resistance to reality. I liked to imagine worlds that were different. I still do.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Dad, Reading, Book

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your parents signed for you and vouched for you. Then after you had it for a little while you could decide if you were interested in taking lessons or you could also get your own gear. Or you could turn that instrument in for another one and try something else. So that's how I got my hands on the guitar.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Book, School, Guitar

  Source: somedayprods.com

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• Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.

  Jack Benny

  Book, Men, Snow

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• As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

  Julie Burchill

  Children, Book, Two

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• Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

  Joan Collins

  Book, Opportunity, Fda

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• Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

  Laurel Lea

  Book, Voice, Mind

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• I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Library, Paradise

  "Poem of the Gifts" (1959) (translation by Alastair Reid)

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