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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
Sep 12, 2025
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Words are the voice of the heart.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Don't join the book burners!
A library should be like a pair of open arms.
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.