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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest

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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Libraries and books are a big part of my life. Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries…. There were no parents there, no one I knew, and the solitude was a great relief. – Henry Rollins, “Empowerment Through Libraries,” November 2013, LAWeekly [Swoon!

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the worlds cuisines, past and present, was available on request. – Luigi Barzini

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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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