Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. — Lawrence Clark Powell
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt. — Lawrence Clark Powell
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. — Lawrence Clark Powell
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. — Lawrence Clark Powell
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern — Lawrence Clark Powell
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. — Lawrence Clark Powell
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