John Cotton Dana Quotes

• 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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  Money   Real   Boys  

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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.

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  Library   Needs   Use  

  "Libraries; addresses and essays".

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• The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

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  Library   Next   Firsts  

  John Cotton Dana (2012). “A Library Primer”, p.16, tredition

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• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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  Inspirational   Education   Appreciation  

  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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