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Preservation Quotes

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands"

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom"

"For it can never be that war shall preserve life and peace destroy it"

"The recognition of their language is precious to a small people."

"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."

"We should preserve more virtue than we show"

"Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably"

"For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it."

"Posterity — you will never know how much it has cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it"

"In wildness is the preservation of the world"

"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."

"If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be."

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