Augustine Birrell

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Augustine Birrell (January 19, 1850 - November 20, 1933), was an English author and politician.

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• A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love;
  • IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS, IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN

• It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
  • IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS, IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN

• Words are women, deeds are men
  • IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS, IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN

• Great is bookishness and the charm of books.
  • IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS, BOOKWORMS

• Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
  • IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS, BOOKWORMS

• 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.
  • IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS, BOOKWORMS

• There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven;
  • IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS, GOSSIP IN A LIBRARY

• There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
  • IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS, GOSSIP IN A LIBRARY

• It can never be wrong to give pleasure.
  • IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS, GOSSIP IN A LIBRARY

Attributed

• 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.

External links

• Works by Augustine Birrell at Project Gutenbergpt:Augustine Birrell