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My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of th

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table

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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. – Shelby Foote

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul). – Berlin Royal Library, inscription

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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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