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A great library contains the diary of the human race. - George Mer

A great library contains the diary of the human race. – George Mercer Dawson

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To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization. – Timothy Healy

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