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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
Explore more quotes by Robert M. Hutchins
"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."
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