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Augustine Birrell
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Author
About the author
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell,
English
Author
#Heart
#Word
#Sight
#Friendship
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell,
English
Author
#Years
#World
#Man
#Books
#Language
#Pressure
#Taste
#Haste
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Augustine Birrell,
English
Author
#History
#Philosophy
Libraries are not made, they grow.
Augustine Birrell,
English
Author
#Libraries
That great dust-heap called 'history'.
Augustine Birrell,
English
Author
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell,
English
Author
#World
#Man
#Books
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
Augustine Birrell,
English
Author
#Act
#Creation