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Augustine Birrell: An ordinary man...

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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 possible to be happy.

Source: From Charades, an internet collection of quotations.
-- 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.


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