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Augustine Birrell
Reading is not...
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
An ordinary man...
An ordinary man can. . . surround himself with two thousand books. . . and thenceforward have at least one place in...
Good as it...
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Source: In
Libraries are not...
Libraries are not made; they grow.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
That great dust-heap...
That great dust-heap called history.
Source: Obiter Dicta, Carlyle, 1884.
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