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January 2002 Issue

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From the walls of the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg CountyWise man thinking:

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."
- Henry David Thoreau

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"Reading books removes sorrows from the heart."
- Moroccan proverb

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"Library: here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices and raises their minds."
- Richard Armour

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"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the presentation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them."
- Mark Twain

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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island."
- Walt Disney

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"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." 
- W. Somerset Maugham

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"I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
- Malcolm X 

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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."
- Pablo Picasso

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"You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff."
- Jim Critchfield

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"The unread story is not a story, it is a little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
- Ursula LeGuin

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