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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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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. – Samuel Johnson

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Murder
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Samuel Johnson
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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

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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

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. – Hugo Ball

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Libraries

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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. – Gamaliel Bailey

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Art must take reality by surprise. – Francoise Sagan

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