Quote by Augustine Birrell
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexande

One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote–Alexander Pope. – 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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They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. – Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world. – Arthur Helps, “Chapter IV,” Companions of My Solitude, 1851

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Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

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