admit authorities, however heavily furred gowned, libraries let tell u — Virginia Woolf, Second Common Reader

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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions—there we have none.

Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader

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