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Augustine Birrell, KC, was an English politician, barrister, academic and author. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916, resigning in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising. Find out more about Augustine Birrell quotes on Augustine Birrell's biography.

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Libraries are not made, they grow.

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

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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.

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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.

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That great dust-heap called 'history'.

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