Library
Established in 1867, the Bibilioteca Academiei Române has a collection of over seven million books and collections of drawings, engravings, maps, and coins. The Academy also operates its own publishing house.
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Famous quotes containing the word library:
“A man’s library is a sort of harem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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Howbeit eluding fallopian diagnosis,
She simpers into the tribal library and reads
That Keats died of tuberculosis . . .”
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“It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn’t.”
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