“A man's library is a sort of harem.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

John Braine (1922–1986) English novelist

New York Times, 7 October 1962.

“But we're a university! Weto have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?"

"Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely.”

Terry Pratchett book The Last Continent

Source: The Last Continent

“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”

Penelope Lively (1933) British novelist

“Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

April 6, 1775
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

“The social value of freeing women from a harem-enclosed existence to a life of activity can be questioned only by those advocates of a "man's world" who wish to perpetuate its butchers and savage jungle law.”

William Moulton Marston (1893–1947) American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writer

As quoted in The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times, edited by Joeph J Darowski, p.7 in the essay "William Marston's Feminist Agenda" by Michelle R. Finn,
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“It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed', although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

“A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.”

Rex Stout book The League of Frightened Men

Source: The League of Frightened Men

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.”

Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman

Vol. I, ch. 11
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

“A man's library is a sort of harem.”

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