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  "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
-- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion..."
-- Henry Steel Commager
"If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do –
it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas."
-- Graceanne A. Decandido
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1730

 

I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson

 

Tis the good reader that makes the good book;

...in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and

unmistakably meant for his ear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Reading furnishes our mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. - John Locke

 

Beware of the man of one book. - Anonymous
 

Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge;
it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke

 

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. - James McCosh

 

Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx 

 

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. - John Milton

 

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

I had just taken to reading.  I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes...  My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.
         - H. G. Wells

 

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, 
we should ask him what books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.

- Dr. Seuss

 

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, 
if it is but a single sentence.  If you gain fifteen minutes a day,  it will make itself felt at the end of the year. - Horace Mann

 

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.
        - Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education

 

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