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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

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good
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

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Exercise
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you havent courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. – Samuel Johnson

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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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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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Libraries

Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance. – Author Unknown

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Libraries

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. – Mark Twain, 1894

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. – Marguerite Duras

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I did a production of Journeys End, an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, You know, you could really do this if you wanted to. – Tom Hiddleston

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Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. Thats but a hint of what well feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally – and permanently – be at home in a way that defies description. – Charles Stanley

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Never comment on a womans rear end. Never use the words large or size with rear end. Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. – Tim Allen

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