#librarian

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."

"Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian."

"She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all."

"Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours."

"In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian."

"It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians."