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Augustine Birrell Quotes

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History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) History is the great dust - heap... A pageant and not a philosophy  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) 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 Quotes) Any 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 Quotes) A poet’s soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) Few men can afford to be angry  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) History is a pageant and not a philosophy  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) Is this true or only clever?  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) Personally, I am dead against the burning of books  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) Great is bookishness and the charm of books  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) Libraries are not made, they grow  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) 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  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) Any 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 Quotes) I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed.about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) 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 Quotes) A poet’s soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense  (Augustine Birrell Quotes) A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators  (Augustine Birrell Quotes)