Author: Lawrence Clark Powell

Quotes

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

- Lawrence Clark Powell

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

- Lawrence Clark Powell

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

- Lawrence Clark Powell

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

- Lawrence Clark Powell

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