"The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher."

-- Melvil Dewey

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“Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.”
“When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.”
“The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.”
“Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.”
“If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.”
“I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.”

Source : Paul von Hindenburg (1921). “Out of My Life”
“John Kerry went hunting today. He said he killed a goose. He didn't bring Teresa along because he was a little rusty and he was afraid he might kill the goose that laid the golden egg.”
“Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.”

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