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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

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As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

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He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.