Definition of Library

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Definition of Library
	Library A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library. A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books. Related Definitions: And, Apartment, Appropriated, As, Building, Collection, Considerable, For, Holding, Kept, Library, Merchandise, Not, Of, Or, Private, Public, Such, Use

Library Quotations

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Rodney Dangerfield

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Library Translations

library in Afrikaans is biblioteek
library in Danish is bibliotek
library in Dutch is bibliotheek, boekerij
library in German is Sammlung, bibilothek, Bibliothek
library in Italian is biblioteca
library in Norwegian is bibliotek
library in Portuguese is biblioteca
library in Spanish is biblioteca
library in Swedish is bibliotek

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