John Cotton Dana quotes
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“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
-- John Cotton DanaSource : John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.
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“The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.”
-- John Cotton DanaSource : John Cotton Dana (2012). “A Library Primer”, p.16, tredition
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“Of hobbies there are many, many, kinds. For example, money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby, for it will scarcely carry a boy along in continuous joy, comfort and pleasure - to say nothing of a full-grown man. Money comes, not because it is ridden as a hobby, but because a real hobby is ridden so cleverly and carefully that it oozes out money on the side!”
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“To use it should be as natural ... as to use the trolley when one needs transportation.”
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“The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.”
-- John Cotton DanaSource : "Libraries; addresses and essays".
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“Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.”
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“I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.”
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“Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.”
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“We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.”
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Source : "A son of the road" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.
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“It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.”
Source : "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.
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