A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monu…

Mark Twain
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. ✨ Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). Mark Twain Speaks for Himself, p.146, Purdue University Press
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