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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."
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"Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you."

"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can."

"Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim."

"Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work."
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