"There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that."

Adams, J. Donald · Libraries · 1 fans >>
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"We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin."

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"A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows."

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"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

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"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

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"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."

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"A man's library is a sort of harem."

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"Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in."

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"Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm."

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