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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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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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People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. – James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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To people who remember JFKs assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his fathers coffin. – Michael Beschloss

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