History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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Libraries are not made, they grow.
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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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 - In History
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Is this true or only clever?
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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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 - In History
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That great dust-heap called 'history'.
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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