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Augustine Birrell has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
• A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is…
• Libraries are not made, they grow.
• The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in…
• That great dust-heap called 'history'.
• Is this true or only clever?
• Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is…
• History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
• Few men can afford to be angry.
• Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
• Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure…
• Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

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