Famous quotes containing the words holmes, public and/or library:
“No, no; the real name, said Holmes sweetly. It is always awkward doing business with an alias.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)
“Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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