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“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.”

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Author:Anatole France

“Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.”

“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.”

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Book:The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.”

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Author:Jack Benny

“When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.”

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Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.”

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Book:The Last Summer (of You and Me)

Source: The Last Summer (of You and Me)

“For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin