Augustine Birrell Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Augustine Birrell:

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
~Augustine Birrell


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/augustine-birrell-quotes/#ad328fa0

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/augustine-birrell-quotes/#8e79a0bf

That great dust-heap called 'history'.
~Augustine Birrell


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/augustine-birrell-quotes/#5958bdb3

Libraries are not made, they grow.
~Augustine Birrell


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/augustine-birrell-quotes/#62d945d9

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
~Augustine Birrell


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/augustine-birrell-quotes/#9e8cb32d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/augustine-birrell-quotes/#074017cf

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/augustine-birrell-quotes/#bc6efe24

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