Famous quotes containing the words carnegie, free and/or library:
“We accept and welcome ... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.”
—Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919)
“We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“A man’s library is a sort of harem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)