Libraries are not made; they grow.

Augustine Birrell


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

Augustine Birrell

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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Augustine Birrell


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The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

Augustine Birrell

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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 is is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell


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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 happy.

Augustine Birrell

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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 always possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

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Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Augustine Birrell

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