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Quote by John Lubbock
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. – John Lubbock

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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. – John Lubbock

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Education
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. – John Lubbock

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Learning
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The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Libraries

Youve got to love libraries. Youve got to love books. Youve got to love poetry. Youve got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it. – Ray Bradbury

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Libraries

My books are very few, but then the world is before me – a library open to all – from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me – in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. – Joseph Howe, 1824

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Libraries

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. – Jo Godwin

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Libraries

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo

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The epigram is a handy weapon, having the keenness of the stiletto, and its glitter. – William Watson, “A Note on Epigram,” 1883 [a little altered —tε&#5511

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One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear – the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just dont think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing. – Lawrence Eagleburger

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