...maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities....at present.""Nonsense," the bookseller said. "There's always time to appreciate a good book.
A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there__ this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady__hat iconoclastic lady__as with us when we cleaned. She wore blue jeans, too. Maybe she was what people thought about when you said library, but she didn__ make the library. People made the library. That__ what made a library. Without them, all the sacredness was gone. It was just a building with books.
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A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there__ this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady__hat iconoclastic lady__as with us when we cleaned. She wore blue jeans, too. Maybe she was what people thought about when you said library, but she didn__ make the library. People made the library. That__ what made a library. Without them, all the sacredness was gone. It was just a building with books.
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