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A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love; It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action. Words are women, deeds are men Great is bookishness and the charm of books. Personally, I am dead against the burning of books. Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! [:] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief. There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven; There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector It can never be wrong to give pleasure. 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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