Friday, December 19, 2008

the completion of our humanity

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing-school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.


Owen Meredith, The Book-lover's Enchiridion‎ by Alexander Ireland. 1884. Page 430

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