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A mans library is a sort of harem. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mans library is a sort of harem. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed. – Charles Medawar

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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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