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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
Explore more quotes by James Otis
"The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country."
"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
"But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes."
"I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject."
"My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning."
"I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is."
"It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own."
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