Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Quote by Augustine Birrell

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An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least...

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least...

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we...

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we...

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place...

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place...

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without...

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without...

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Libraries are not made, they grow

Libraries are not made, they grow

Libraries are not made, they grow.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we...

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we...

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you...

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you...

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more...

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more...

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important,...

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important,...

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if...

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if...

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Reading maketh a full man.

Reading maketh a full man.