Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
—Augustine Birrell
Topics: Libraries
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
Topics: Reading
Friendship is a word the vely sight of which im print makes the heart warm.
—Augustine Birrell
Topics: Friendship
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
—Augustine Birrell
Topics: Books, Reading
Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
—Augustine Birrell
Topics: Education
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote—Alexander Pope.
—Augustine Birrell
Topics: Quotations
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