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"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
— Saul Bellow

tags: books, libraries
200 people liked it

"My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid."
— Joan Bauer

tags: books, library
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"A library is infinity under a roof."
— Gail Carson Levine

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"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

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"When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: libraries, reading
96 people liked it

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
— Anne Herbert

tags: books, money, reading
83 people liked it

"Dear me, how I love a library."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

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"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education."
— Harold Howe

tags: education, libraries, library, school
34 people liked it

"When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day."
— Jean Fritz

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"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
— Henry Ward Beecher

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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.
- Mr. Darcy"
— Jane Austen (Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion)

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

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"What in the world would we do without our libraries?"
— Katharine Hepburn

tags: libraries, library
13 people liked it

"A library is books and somewhere to put them and some people who want them there.
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— Sheila Bourbeau

tags: books, library
11 people liked it

"'Come with me,' Mom says.
'To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.'"
— Lisa Schroeder (I Heart You, You Haunt Me)

tags: books, library, summer
9 people liked it

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