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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
— Augustine Birrell
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Augustine Birrell
politician, barrister, writer, literary critic
1850 – 1933
Augustine Birrell KC was a British Liberal Party politician, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916. In this post, he was praised for enabling tenant farmers to own their property and for extending university education for Catholics. He was criticised for failing to take action against Irish rebels before the Easter Rising, leading to his subsequent resignation. A barrister by training, he was also an author noted for humorous essays.
All Quotes by Augustine Birrell
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A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.
— Augustine Birrell
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It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
— Augustine Birrell
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Great is bookishness and the charm of books.
— Augustine Birrell
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Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
— Augustine Birrell
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Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! […] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.
— Augustine Birrell
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There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven;
— Augustine Birrell
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There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
— Augustine Birrell
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It can never be wrong to give pleasure.
— Augustine Birrell