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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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