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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. Gaius Sallustius Crispus

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	Gaius Sallustius Crispus
	Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust, (86-34 BC), a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines. Read More

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. With Carthaginian faith i.e. Treachery.