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“A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.” quote by Georges Duhamel — Download Open image

“A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.”

Georges Duhamel

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Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

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It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

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