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Kindly share library and reading related quotes here in this page.
Some of my inputs are
* Itโs no use going to college unless the library is your final destination.
* None is poor save him that lacks knowledge.
* Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
* Knowledge is free at the library just bring your container.
* Let a great book open your heart at library.
* An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
* Knowledge is not given but earned and character is not granted but cultivated.
* Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.
* Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
* The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another.
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Few are:
"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert."
"Libraries are magical places. The first books I fell in love with were library books. As I child, I would take out stacks too high to carry and pine over them when they had to go back - until, fickle, I fell in love with a new stack of stories."
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a libraryย
โ Shelby Foote
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.ย
โ Samuel NIGER (1883-1956)
Libraries are not made; they grow.ย
โย "Book Buying". Obiter Dicta.ย
Augustine BIRRELL (1850-1933)
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. 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.ย
โ Cited inย ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475ย
Norman COUSINS (1915- )
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.ย
โ William DYER (1636-1696)
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
โย Life of Johnson.ย From James Boswell, April 6, 1775.ย
Samuel JOHNSON (1709-1784)
"A LIBRARY IS A DELIVER ROOM, WHERE NEW IDEAS ARE BORN"
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-Qurโan 96 (1-5)
(this is the first revealed versus of Holy Quran)
good sir
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