"The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation."

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Source : "Libraries; addresses and essays".

John Cotton Dana

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“En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.”
“The 'good food' is...the food of the Word of God, for as food builds up the tissues of the body, repairs waste, and preserves us in health, so the Word of God is the complete food of the soul.”
“I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.”
“I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.”
“I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.”
“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.”
“Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.”
“To those who are His all things are not only easy to be borne, but even to be gladly chosen. Their will is united to that will which moves heaven and earth, which gives laws to angels, and rules the courses of the world.”

Source : Henry Edward Manning, Aeterna Press (2016). “Henry Edward Manning Collection [2 Books]”, p.631, Aeterna Press

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