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15 great quotes about books

15 great quotes about books from "A Book Addict's Treasury."

8. Germaine Greer, 'Daddy, We Hardly Knew You' (1990)

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"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.鈥 

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