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“A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.”

Source: Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science

“If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].”

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Author:King James I

“... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.”

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Author:Carolyn Wells

“It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.”

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Author:Vartan Gregorian