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«The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.»
Author: Clarence Day
(Biographer, Essayist, Humorist, Writer)
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«The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.»
«The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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«Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Kindness
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exaction, preface, prefaced, volumes
«There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.»
«It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
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«Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.»
«Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.»
«Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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