Quotes by 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 always possible to be happy."
— Augustine Birrell
"Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."
— Augustine Birrell
"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."
— Augustine Birrell
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Augustine Birrell KC (19 January 1850 – 20 November 1933) was a British Liberal Party politician, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916. In this post, he was praised for enabling tenan...