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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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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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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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Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. – William Dyer

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. – Shelby Foote

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Try to look on the bright side of things; if the bright side is not immediately evident, keep looking. It is better to be busy than depressed. – Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com

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