| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. | | Norman Cousins | | | 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 | | | | | If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library. | | Lily Tomlin | | | | | No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c | | Samuel Johnson | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 7 of 7 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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