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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library"

- Samuel Johnson

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This quote by Samuel Johnson speaks to the futility of human ambition. A public library is a location where individuals can pertain to find understanding and details, and to pursue their dreams and aspirations. Nevertheless, the large volume of books in a town library serves as a pointer of how much understanding and details is out there, and just how much of it is beyond our reach. It is a stark reminder of the limits of human ambition and the vanity of our hopes. We can never ever intend to know everything, and our aspirations are often restricted by our own capabilities. The public library works as a suggestion of this, and of the futility of our hopes.

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Samuel Johnson This quote is written / told by Samuel Johnson between September 18, 1709 and December 13, 1784. He was a famous Author from England. The author also have 150 other quotes.

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