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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I h

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! – Anatole France

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Art
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Anatole France
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. – Anatole France

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Truth
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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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A library is but the souls burying ground. It is a land of shadows. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Libraries

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. – Lemony Snicket

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Libraries

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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Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle. – Robert Olen Butler

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The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous. – William Graham Sumner

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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. – Walter Bagehot

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