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Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian Quotes: There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
         

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.


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