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> [“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-fadiman/it-has-long-been-my-belief-that-everyone-s-library-contains-an-odd/)

[Anne Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-fadiman/)

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> [“A good library contains something in it to offend everyone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-goodwin/a-good-library-contains-something-in-it-to-offend-everyone/)

[Jo Goodwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-goodwin/)

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> [“The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-hanagarne/the-public-library-contains-multitudes-and-each-person-who-visits/)

[Josh Hanagarne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-hanagarne/)

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> [A great library contains the diary of the human race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-great-library-contains-the-diary-of-the-human-race/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Nothing is so intimately a part of a man as his library. It contains just what the possessor wants to look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-lovecraft-2/nothing-is-so-intimately-a-part-of-a-man-as-his-library-it-contains/)

[H.P. Lovecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-lovecraft-2/)

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> [It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-fadiman/it-has-long-been-my-belief-that-everyone-s-library-contains-an-odd-2/)

[Anne Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-fadiman/)

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