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Quote by Augustine Birrell
Libraries are not made, they grow. - Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

Other quotes by Augustine Birrell

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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Books
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Augustine Birrell
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I dont believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. – Pablo Picasso

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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. – Abdul Kalam

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History

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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History

History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures

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I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. – Sholem Asch

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When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. – Leon Battista Alberti

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Science

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. – J. G. Ballard

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Baldwin

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