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"One sure window into a person's soul is his reading list."

—Mary B. W. Tabor

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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking something up and finding something else on the way. "

—Franklin P. Adams

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"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."

—Lady Bird Johnson

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"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where history comes to life."

—Norman Cousins

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"No furniture so charming as books."

—Sydney Smith

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"Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens."

—Judah ibn-Tibbon (12th century)

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"There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house."

—Joe Ryan

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"I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now -- only that place where the books are kept."

—John Steinbeck

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"The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters."

—Ross MacDonald

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"Book lovers never go to bed alone."

—Unknown

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"Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container."

—Unknown

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"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

—Descartes

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