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Melvil Dewey Quotes

1851–1931 United States

Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club.

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The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

The Relation of the State to the Public Library (1889)

The cheapness and quickness of modern methods of communication has been like a growth of wings, so that a thousand things which were thought to belong like trees in one place may travel about like birds.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Melvil Dewey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.