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"A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love."
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Augustine BirrellIt can never be wrong to give pleasure. — Augustine Birrell
"It can never be wrong to give pleasure."
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Augustine Birrell
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Augustine Birrell KC was a British Liberal Party politician, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916. In this post, he was praised for enabling tenant farmers to own their property and for extending university education for Catholics. He was criticised for failing to take action against Irish rebels before the Easter Rising, leading to his subsequent resignation. A barrister by train
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"That great dust-heap called ‘history’."
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"It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action."
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"Great is bookishness and the charm of books."
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"There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven."
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"Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! […] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief."
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