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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.


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The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.



Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.



Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.



Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?



The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.



A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.



The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.





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