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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

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. – Samuel Johnson

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Complaining
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Samuel Johnson
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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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Humankind
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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

To build up a library is to create a life. – Carlos María Domínguez

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Libraries

I always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges, translated from Spanish

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Libraries

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

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Libraries

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My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities. – Mahatma Gandhi

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