Quotes with library

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  • Ray Bradbury I discovered me in the library.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Alexander Smith I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Groucho Marx I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Alan Dundes If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • George Bernard Shaw If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lily Tomlin If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Carolyn Wells It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Mark Twain Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Shakespeare Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
    From mine own library with volumes that
    I prize above my dukedom.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Malcolm X My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bram Cohen My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • William Shakespeare My library was dukedom large enough.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anatole France Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Samuel Johnson No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Aphra Behn That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Al Jarreau That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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