Quote by Stephen Leacock
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room;

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock

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A library is thought in cold storage. – Herbert Samuel

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A mans library is a sort of harem. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. – Quoted in The Whole Earth Catalog, 1980 edition, originally created by Stewart B

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