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)
“You know, Mr. Secretary, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.”
—Calvin Coolidge (18721933)
“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 (17511816)
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