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John Cotton Dana Quotes

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana
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.

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

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

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.

John Cotton Dana
Library, Needs, Use
"Libraries; addresses and essays".

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!

John Cotton Dana
Money, Real, Boys

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