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«The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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«To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival; to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Those who in quarrels interpose - Must often wipe a bloody nose»
«Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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«Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
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«The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Makes half a sentence at a time enough;The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.»
«Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else, / Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.»
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