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

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

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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. – Shelby Foote

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My books are very few, but then the world is before me – a library open to all – from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me – in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. – Joseph Howe, 1824

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Dont join the book burners… Dont be afraid to go in your library and read every book. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. – Charles de Lint

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. – Ernest Hemingway

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It was cool to do someone elses movie. It was a lot of fun. – Jason Mewes

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You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream. – Channing Tatum

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