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A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library. — Thomas Fuller

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection. — Michael Dirda

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. — Dan Brown

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library? — Italo Calvino

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing. — Richard Flanagan

We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity. — Steve Maraboli

One of the great advantages of
having a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books. — Michael Hirst

Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched? — Richard Jefferies

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. — Alan Garner

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library. — Brewster Kahle

Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books. — Kate Evangelista

He paused, and I knew he was delving again in a mind larger and darker than even his great library. — Gene Wolfe

Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library. — Chelsea Clinton

To emancipate the mind is the great task which printing came into the world to perform. — Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. — William H Gass

The live without understanding the meaning of the world is more like a stroll in the great library of books without touching — Dan Brown

You can't have a great university without a great library. — Joe Paterno

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury

The great white lions from the steps of the Public Library leaped together and threw themselves upon the iron steed and its dark rider. For — Diane Duane

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The public library is the great equaliser. — Keith Richards

A great library contains the diary of the human race. — George Mercer Dawson

In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone - the library. And I never met a library I didn't like. — William Stafford

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. — Anthony Doerr

A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages. — John Hill Burton

...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library. — Jan Louch

A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books. — Daniel C. Dennett

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books. — George Gilfillan

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. — Aubrey F.G. Bell

The function of a great library is to store obscure books. — Nicholson Baker