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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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. – Samuel Johnson

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Age
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Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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Gambling (Gaming)
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. – Samuel Johnson

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Trust
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Other Quotes from
Libraries
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Youve got to love libraries. Youve got to love books. Youve got to love poetry. Youve got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it. – Ray Bradbury

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Libraries

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. – John Lubbock

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Libraries

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

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Libraries

Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul. – Library at Thebes, inscription over the door

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Libraries

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Even though Im retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen. – Stephen Baker

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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. – Maurice Baring

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Im completely comfortable with gay marriage. – Elizabeth Edwards

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