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quotes[0]='Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn\'t rip off. <i><br>- Barbara Kingsolver</i>'

quotes[1]='Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. <i><br>- Lady Bird Johnson </i>'

quotes[2]='The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn\'t provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. <i><br>- Malcolm Forbes</i>'

quotes[3]='Outside of a dog, a book is a man\'s best friend. Inside of a dog, it\'s too dark to read. <i><br>- Groucho Marx</i>'

quotes[4]='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. <i><br>- Anonymous, Chinese saying</i>'

quotes[5]='Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.  <i><br>- Francis Bacon</i>'

quotes[6]='My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth- century gadgetry. <i><br>- Robert Downs</i>'

quotes[7]='It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle. <i><br>- Sutton Elbert Griggs</i>'

quotes[8]='A library book . . . is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, is their only capital. <i><br>- Thomas Jefferson</i>'

quotes[9]='There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out. <i><br>- Tom Masson</i>'

quotes[10]='The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy. <i><br>- Sir William Osler</i>'

quotes[11]='A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. <i><br>- Henry Ward Beecher</i>'

quotes[12]='What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? <i><br>- John Ruskin</i>'

quotes[13]='Classic:  A book which people praise but don\'t read. <i><br>- Mark Twain</i>'

quotes[14]='A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. <i><br>- Henry Brooke</i>'

quotes[15]='To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. <i><br>- Cicero</i>'

quotes[16]='Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. <i><br>- Barbara Tuchman</i>'

quotes[17]='A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge! It blossoms through the year! <i><br>- Richard Brainsley Sheridan</i>'

quotes[18]='Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. <i><br>- Virginia Woolf</i>'

quotes[19]='All that mankind has done, though, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. <i><br>- Thomas Carlyle</i>'

quotes[20]='Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. <i><br>- Sean Wilentz</i>'

quotes[21]='One sure window into a person\'s soul is his reading list. <i><br>- Mary B. W. Tabor</i>'

quotes[22]='Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul. <i><br>- Library at Thebes, inscription over the door</i>'

quotes[23]='As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. <i><br>- Erma Bombeck</i>'

quotes[24]='Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed. <i><br>- Charles Medawar</i>'

quotes[25]='Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. <i><br>- Richard Powers</i>'

quotes[26]='A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.... Children learn to read being in the presence of books. <i><br>- Horace Mann</i>'

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