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GOVERNMENT > politician, man of letters > Augustine Birrell
Reading is not...
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Source: Obiter Dicta, The Office of Literature, Second Series, 1887.
-- Augustine Birrell, (Jan 19 1850-1933), English politician, man of letters; His policies, as British chief secretary for Ireland (1907-16), contributed to the Easter Week rising of Irish nationalists in Dublin, 1916.