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Quote by Augustine Birrell
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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Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. – Pieter Geyl, Debates With Historians

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History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. – Karl Marx

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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. – Alan Watts

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History: a collection of epitaphs. – Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. – Marcus Aurelius

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Youre not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people. – Tony Shalhoub

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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. – Elias Canetti

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I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasnt available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I dont know that its seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count? – Andy Cohen

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