Library Annual with Program and Suggestions for Library Day: Also the List of Books Chosen for the School Libraries of the State, Together with Material for the Observance of West Virginia Day

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Page 2 - Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
Page 2 - The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Page 2 - When I would know thee, Goodyere, my thought looks Upon thy well-made choice of friends and books ; Then do I love thee, and behold thy ends In making thy friends books, and thy books friends...

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