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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furn

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists. – Archibald MacLeish, "The Premise of Meaning," American Scholar, 5 June 1

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Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul. – Library at Thebes, inscription over the door

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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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