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• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov
• London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything… — David Attenborough
• Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood
• It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me… — James A. Baldwin
• The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading… — Lynda Barry
• A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
• That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good… — Aphra Behn
• People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow
• If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn
• Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
• Libraries are not made, they grow. — Augustine Birrell
• Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. — Jorge Luis Borges

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