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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Men, Long

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury

Education, Money, End

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything, Garden

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa

Education, College, Laid

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx

Good, Book, Find

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Rodney Dangerfield

Face, Reading, Kid

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin

Beauty, Truth, Done

A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo

Faith, Act, Implies

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X

Life, Good, Reading

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

Paradise, Imagined

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov

Society, American, Read

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H. P. Lovecraft

Live, Sleep, Before

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 a book.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Greatest, Book

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge, Yourself, May

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Drunk, Thought, Might

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
Anne Lamott

Life, Friendship, Truth

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson

Book, Turn, Half

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush

Learning, Children, Find

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.
Anatole France

Books, Left, Returns

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

Life, History, Place

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson

Human, Place, Public

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Time, Basketball, Start

Your library is your paradise.
Desiderius Erasmus

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Doris Lessing

Political, Free, Tell

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Brain, Put, Away

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros

Mother, School, Become

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

History, Try, Complete

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Success, Future, Everything

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr

Father, Fire, Tell

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