More from Augustine Birrell

  1. Words are women, deeds are men
  2. Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
  3. It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
  4. Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! [:] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, raven…
  5. A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love;
  6. There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven;
  7. There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
  8. It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

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