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| Cover your bookcases with rugs and linens of fine quality; preserve them from dampness and mice and injury; for it is your books that are your true treasures. Ibn Tibbon |
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| If you have one child who does not like to lend books, and another child who does, leave your library to the second, even if that child is younger. Judah of Regensburg |
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| Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens: bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices and myrrh. And when your soul be weary, change from garden to garden, and from prospect to prospect. Ibn Tibbon see a layout that uses this quote |
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| My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. Judah Ha-Levi |
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| Never refuse to lend books to anyone who cannot afford to purchase them, but lend books only to those who can be trusted to return them. Ibn Tibbon |
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| Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx |
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| Three possessions should you prize: a field, a friend, and a book. Hai Gaon |
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