An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
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Augustine Birrell
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Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
That great dust-heap called 'history'.
Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.