“Nenhum lugar proporciona uma prova mais evidente da vaidade das esperanças humanas do que uma biblioteca pública.”
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library
The rambler - Página 2 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-MhVtAa2b-wC&pg=PA2, Samuel Johnson - Longman, 1793
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Herbert Spencer
(1820–1903)
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature — a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer on the Americans and the Americans on Herbert Spencer ... - Página 18, Herbert Spencer - 1883