The Private Library: What We Do Know, what We Don't Know, what We Ought to Know about Our BooksJ. W. Bouton, 1897 - 162 páginas |
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Página 51 - The very sound of a Lady's Library gave me a great curiosity to see it ; and as it was some time before the lady came to me, I had an opportunity of turning over a great many of her books, which were ranged together in a very beautiful order.
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Página 152 - And the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things: — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge—-not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
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Página 150 - I say first we have despised literature. What do we, as a nation, care about books ? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses ? If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books.