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Quote by Augustine Birrell
An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books...

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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What the candystore was to other kids, the bookstore was to me. The library was my vacation. – Terri Guillemets, “Young bookworm,” 1998

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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare. – Kenko Yoshida

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. – Henry Ward Beecher

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