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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The medicines of the soul.''
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
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The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
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There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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Your library is your portrait.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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