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  "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

—Groucho Marx

    
 

 
   "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."

— Walt Disney

"When I... discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day."
— Jean Fritz

  "Let books be your dining table,
And you shall be full of delights
Let them be your mattress
And you shall sleep restful nights."
— Quoted in Bar Hebraues' Ethicon
 
  "A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life."
— Henry Ward BEECHER

   " You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians." ("WHAT?" asked Ms. McCaslin.)
— Monty Python skit

"A library is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds."
— Light Armour. McGraw-Hill, 1954.
     Richard ARMOUR

  "To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one."
— Anonymous, Chinese saying

         

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

  "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
— Chinese Proverb

"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter."
— Paxton Hood

  "A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."
— Martin Tupper

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends:
they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, 
and the most patient of teachers."
— Charles W. Eliot

  "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
— Richard Steele

"It is no more necessary that a man should remember
the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy,
than the different books which have made him wise. 
Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, 
and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind."
— Sydney Smith

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

"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it." 
— Marie de Sevigne

  "We read to know we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
— Theodore Parker

  "Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out."
— Alvin Toffler

" Students who score higher on "tests tend to come from schools which have more library resource staff and more books, periodicals and videos, and where the instructional role of the teacher-librarian and involvement in cooperative program planning and teaching is more prominent."
— Keith Curry Lance, et. al. The Impact of School Library Media Centers on Academic Achievement.