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Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is j...

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That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one pla...

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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

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Augustine Birrell

Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Born: 1850-01-19

Died: 1933-11-20

Augustine Birrell (19 January 1850 – 20 November 1933) was an English essayist, biographer and politician.More