Source: The Thirteenth Tale
Anne Herbert (writer) (1952) American journalist
"The Next Whole Earth Catalog", (1980), p 331. http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2001-February/035270.html (Derived from the Gilbert Shelton quote, "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."
“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
No. 106 (23 March 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)
“Vengeance must end somewhere, and what better place to stop than at the prince?”
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 2
“Better be killed than frightened to death.”
Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864) English writer
Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds (1865) ch. 39
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) British politician
Variant: Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
“A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.”
Alan M. Dershowitz (1938) American lawyer, author
“What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.”
Archibald Macleish (1892–1982) American poet and Librarian of Congress
"The Premise Of Meaning" in American Scholar (5 June 1972)
