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Augustine Birrell · History

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Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they grow.

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Augustine Birrell

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

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Cecil Beaton

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

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Henry Louis Gates

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

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