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Quote by Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human

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

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson

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

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