LIBRARY

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1. The richest minds need not large libraries.—BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
   

2. Libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.—BACON, Advancement of Learning
   

3. A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.—H. W. BEECHER, Star Papers
   

4. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.—AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, Obiter Dicta
   

5. Libraries are not made; they grow.—AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, Obiter Dicta
   

6. How much are we bound to those munificent Ptolemies, bountiful Maecenates, heroical patrons, divine spirits, that have provided for us so many well-furnished libraries.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

7. A great library contains the diary of the human race.—REV. GEORGE DAWSON
   

8. Meek young men grow up in libraries.—EMERSON, Nature, Addresses and Lectures
   

9. Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.—EMERSON, Society and Solitude
   

10. It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.—THOMAS FULLER, Holy and Profane State
    

11. He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.—WILLIAM GODWIN, The Enquirer
    

12. Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.—O. W. HOLMES, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
    

13. I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the county, under such regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.—JEFFERSON
    

14. A man will turn over half a library to make one book.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

15. Money invested in a library gives much better returns than mining stock.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
    

16. Lucullus' furnishing a library, however deserves praise and record, for he collected very many choice manuscripts; and the use they were put to was even more magnificent than the purchase, the library being always open, and the walks and reading-rooms about it free to all Greeks.—PLUTARCH, Lives
    

17. My library was dukedom large enough.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

18. Come, and take choice of all my library,
    And so beguile thy sorrow.—SHAKESPEARE, Titus Andronicus
    

19. Shut not your doors to me proud libraries,
    For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring.—WALT WHITMAN, Shut Not Your Doors
    

20. Unlearned men of books assume the care,
    As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.—EDWARD YOUNG, Love of Fame