One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote–Alexander Pope. – Augustine Birrell
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. – Augustine Birrell
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote–Alexander Pope. – Augustine Birrell
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. – 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
But further, in order to embellish it with flowers of language and gems of thought, it is not necessary for this ornamentation to be spread evenly over the entire speech, but it must be so distributed that there may be brilliant jewels placed at various points as a sort of decoration. – Cicero, De oratore