#libra

A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? ↗

— John Ruskin

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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. ↗

— Walter Wager

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Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. ↗

— David Strathairn

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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. ↗

— Peter Straub

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