Quotes by Irving, Washington

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ag >>

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Quotations about Libraries

My library was dukedom large enough. >>

The true university of these days is a collection of books. >>

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of orde >>

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

Irving, Washington