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Library Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
- Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an…
- The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make…
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- 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…
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