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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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I always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges, translated from Spanish

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We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. – Hugo Ball

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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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A word also as to the cost of carriage: This is at present so high, whether the means be mail or express, that we may properly set it down as the chief obstacle to the free development of inter-library loans. – William Warner Bishop, “Inter-Library Loans,” 1909

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