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“ I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature. ”

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And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies? exclaimed Dr. Leete. Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

~ Edward Bellamy

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

~ Edward Bellamy

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

~ Edward Bellamy

As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days, when education and good manners are not the monopoly of a few, but universal, such atrocities are scarcely ever heard of.

~ Edward Bellamy