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The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where ones one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins		Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
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It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature. Jane Welsh Carlyle

	Jane Welsh Carlyle
	(1801-1866) Letters and Memorials, 1883, entry for 21 Nov 1855 - Scottish daughter of physician, writer at age 14, married Thomas Carlyle 1826.