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One Quotes by Augustine Birrell
- Any 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…
- 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,…
- Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
- 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…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
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- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster