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random_text[number++] = "'A home without books is a body without a soul.'<br><br> -- Marcus Tulius Cicero"
random_text[number++] = "'A library is an arsenal of liberty.'<br><br> -- Unknown"
random_text[number++] = "'Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.'<br><br> -- Unknown"
random_text[number++] = "'The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.'<br><br> -- John Greenleaf Whittier poet"
random_text[number++] = "'You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.'<br><br>  -- Paul Sweeney"
random_text[number++] = "'A library is a hospital for the mind'<br><br> -- Unknown"
random_text[number++] = "'Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future'<br><br>  -- Ray Bradbury author"
random_text[number++] = "'The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library'<br><br> -- Ashleigh Brilliant cartoonist"
random_text[number++] = "'The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.'<br><br>  -- Tom T Rowan journalist"
random_text[number++] = "'Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.'<br><br>-- Claudia Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady"
random_text[number++] = "'A house without books is like a room without windows.'<br><br> --- Heinrich Mann"     
random_text[number++] = "'No entertainment is as cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting'<br><br> -- Lady Mary Wortley Montague"
random_text[number++] = "'Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.'<br><br> -- Charles Caleb Colton"
random_text[number++] = "'I cannot live without books.'<br><br> -- Thomas Jefferson"
random_text[number++] = "'Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.'<br><br> -- Joseph Addison"
random_text[number++] = "'Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.'<br><br> -- Maya Angelou"
random_text[number++] = "'If we are to be as wise as we are strong, then we need more wise men, reading more good books in more new libraries.'<br><br> -- John F. Kennedy"
random_text[number++] = "'Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.'<br><br> -- Charles W. Elliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896"
random_text[number++] = "'If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.'<br><br> -- Harry A. Overstreet"
random_text[number++] = "'All that mankind has done, though, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.'<br><br> -- Thomas Carlyle"
random_text[number++] = "'The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.'<br><br> -- Mark Twain"
random_text[number++] = "'The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.'<br><br> -- Descartes"
random_text[number++] = "'He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge -- where it is written and where it is to be found.'<br><br> -- A.A. Hodge"
random_text[number++] = "'I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking something up and finding something else on the way.'<br><br> -- Franklin P. Adams"
random_text[number++] = "'Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.'<br><br> -- Samuel Johnson"
random_text[number++] = "'Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.'<br><br> -- Jan Morris"
random_text[number++] = "'The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.'<br><br> -- Lesley Conger"
random_text[number++] = "'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.... 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.'<br><br> -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)"
random_text[number++] = "'What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.'<br><br> -- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)"
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