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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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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. James I of England

	James I of England
	(1566-1625) A Counterblast to Tobacco (1604) - king of England 1603-25, as James VI, king of Scotland 1567-1625, KJV Bible.