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“A library is thought in cold storage.”

Herbert Samuel quotes

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“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 quotes (American Essayist and Editor, long associated with the Saturday Review. 1912-1990)

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“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.”

Barbara W. Tuchman quotes (American popular historian and author, 1912-1989)

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“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. quotes (Scottish writer, creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes, 1859-1930)

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“Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.”

Anthony Burgess quotes (English Novelist, Critic and Man of letter, 1917-1993)

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“I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed 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 Barzine quotes

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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)

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“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c”

Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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