Athens Library

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“Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
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—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it ... that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)