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quotes.push("&#8220;Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Arthur Schopenhauer, \"\On Thinking for Oneself\"\ (c1851)</span>");
quotes.push("&#8220;The obvious faults of the book are the most eloquent testimony to the truth of its theme: that a scholar so educated can hardly express his thoughts in his own tongue, and show signs of having read few masterpieces in the same.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>An Oxford Scholar, <em>The Massacre of the Innocents: An Oxford Conspiracy and Romance</em> (1907)</span>");
quotes.push("&#8220;Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Roger Ebert, \"\Critical Eye\"\ (1998)</span>");
quotes.push("&#8220;&#8230; but that was in another Country:<br/>And besides, the Wench is dead.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Christopher Marlowe, <em>The Jew of Malta</em> (1633)</span>");
quotes.push("&#8220;Let's face it, comedy's a dead art form. Tragedy, now that's funny.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Bender, <em>Futurama</em> (19 Dec. 1999)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Herman Melville, <em>Moby-Dick</em> (1851)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>John Milton, <em>Areopagitica</em> (1644)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, / With an indolent expression and an undulating throat / Like an unsuccessful literary man.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Hilaire Belloc, <em>More Beasts for Worse Children</em> (1897)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>G. K. Chesteron, <em>The Defendant</em> (1901)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>George Kaufman and Howard Teichmann, <em>The Solid Gold Cadilac</em> (1953)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Some <em>Bookes</em> are to be Tasted, Others to be Swallowed, and Some Few to be Chewed and Digested: That is, some <em>Bookes</em> are to be read onely in Parts; Others to be read but not Curiously; And some Few to be read wholly, and with Dilligence and Attention.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Francis Bacon, \"\Of Studies\"\ (1625)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Saul Bellow, <em>Him With His Foot in His Mouth</em> (1984)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that <em>words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven</em>. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Samuel Johnson, <em>A Dictionary of the English Language</em> (1755)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>D. H. Lawrence, <em>Studies in Classic American Literature</em> (1923)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Outside of a dog, books are a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Groucho Marx, attrib. <em>Washington Post</em> (12 Mar. 1989)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;&#8230; hereby tongues are knowen, knowledge groweth, iudgement increaseth, bookes are dispersed, the Scripture is sene, the doctours be red, stories be opened, times compared, truth decerned, falsehode detected, &amp; with finger poynted, and all &#8230; through the benefite of printyng.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>John Foxe, <em>Actes and Monumentes</em> (1570)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;&#8230; the material construction of a book, its typography, binding, the feel of the paper, the situation in which it is read, whether silent or out loud, in a library, a crowd or a secluded room; in youth or in age; patiently or urgently; in a cloistered or revolutionary world; all these play upon the meanings which a reader and a text can produce between them.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Joad Raymond, <em>The Invention of the Newspaper</em> (1996)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;A language is a population of variants moving through time, and subject to selection.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Roger Lass, <em>Historical Linguistics and Language</em> (1997)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;The trouble with words is that you don't know whose mouth they've been in.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Dennis Potter, attrib. (1935-1994)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, &#8230; companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Barbara Tuchman, \"\The Book\"\ (1980) </span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Those who are morally spineless and historically vague, like myself, will have to take what comfort we can from the incidental victories of impudence over dignity.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Northrop Frye, \"\Characterization in Shakespearian Comedy\"\ (1953)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Henry David Thoreau, <em>Journal</em> (11 Nov. 1850)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;For assuredly there is no trade on earth, excepting textual criticism, in which the name of prudence would be given to that habit of mind which in ordinary human life is called credulity.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>A. E. Housman, ed. <em>Astronomicon</em> (1903)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;The greater part of readers, instead of blaming us for passing trifles, will wonder that on mere trifles so much labour is expended, with such importance of debate, and such solemnity of diction. To these I answer with confidence, that they are judging of an art which they do not understand; yet cannot much reproach them with their ignorance, nor promise that they would become in general, by learning criticism, more useful, happier or wiser.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Samuel Johson, <em>The Plays of William Shakespeare</em> (1765)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Readers should be warned that I am holding here to an interpretation which I made prior to noting the evidence on which the present essay is based.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Brents Stirling,  \"\<em>Julius Caesar</em> in Revision\"\ (1964)</span>")
quotes.push("&#8220;Most critics don't like fun. They prefer culture, history, interpretation, moral renovation, hypothetical speculation, or blissful lack of closure.&#8221;<br/><span class=\"\author\"\>Rick Bowers,  \"\How to Get from A to B\"\ (2011)</span>")
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