Sunday, September 01, 2013


‘Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a stand-still. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.’


Barbara W Tuchman.

2 comments:

  1. Good quote ... and pic.

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  2. I particularly liked the metaphor about lighthouses....

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