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

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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. – Lady Bird Johnson

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There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out. – Tom Masson

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The great British Library — one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. – Washington Irving

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