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Melvil Dewey Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.



Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

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A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.





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