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A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. The term can mean the collection, the building that houses such a collection, or both. The collection and services are used by people who choose not to — or cannot afford to — purchase an extensive collection... full article at wikipedia

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A man's library is a sort of harem.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.	John Greenleaf Whittier
An hour spent in the library is worth a month in the laboratory.		Unknown
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.	Germaine Greer
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.	Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.	Samuel Johnson
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.		Unknown
What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.	Archibald MacLeish
A library implies an act of faith.	Victor Hugo
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
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