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Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
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The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
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Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
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Born:
December 10, 1851
Died:
December 26, 1931
(aged 80)
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Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club.
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