Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm
Augustine Birrell
History is the great dust heap.. A pageant and not a philosophy.
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That great dustheap called 'history'.
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History is the great dustheap.. A pageant and not a philosophy.
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Libraries are not made, they grow
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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
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Is this true or only clever?
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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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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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Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
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Any 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.
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
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The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
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That great dust-heap called 'history'.
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There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
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