“The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.” ImportantBookBigsHouseRoomsCenturyEssentialsImportant ThingsLibraryParadesEver After18th Century Author:Peter York
“Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!” ThinkingKnowsWould BeAbleDesireReadingBornMusicCenturyResearchBlessedLibraryPityMuseumsUnending Author:Wanda Landowska
“I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.” TryingFactsCenturyRight NowEnglandHistoricalLibraryBostonNew EnglandLineageTracing Author:Rick Moody
“I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.” ThinkingWellsI CanHouseDemocracyAliveCenturyInformationAchievementConcernedAbsolutesLibraryWorthyAccessTreasureOfferingFree SocietyBackbone Author:Gillian Roberts