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Libraries are not made, they grow. - Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

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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. – Augustine Birrell

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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx

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The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. – Vincent Starrett, Buried Caesars

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Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God. – Sun Myung Moon

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America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. – Henry Louis Gates

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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. – Winston Churchill

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If a little labor, little are our gains. Mans fortunes are according to his pains. – Robert Herrick

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A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. – Edwin Lewis

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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung

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