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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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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. – John Lubbock

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Nature
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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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The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary. – Jacqueline Bisset

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. – Mark Twain, 1894

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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. – Erma Bombeck

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What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists. – Archibald MacLeish, "The Premise of Meaning," American Scholar, 5 June 1

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