Creative Quotations from Augustine Birrell (1850-1933)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Augustine Birrell
(1850-1933) born on Jan 19

English "politician, man of letters". "His policies, as British chief secretary for Ireland (1907-16), contributed to the Easter Week rising of Irish nationalists in Dublin, 1916."

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."

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.

"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

Libraries are not made; they grow.

"That great dust-heap called "history.""

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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	""Obiter Dicta," "The Office of Literature," Second Series, 1887."
R:	"From "Charades," an internet collection of quotations."
A:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
N:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K:	""Obiter Dicta," "Carlyle," 1884."