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> [It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-locker-lampson/it-is-a-good-thing-to-read-books-and-need-not-be-a-bad-thing-to-write/)

[Frederick Locker-Lampson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-locker-lampson/)

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## More by Frederick Locker-Lampson

> [Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-locker-lampson/remember-cobbler-to-keep-to-your-leather/)

[Frederick Locker-Lampson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-locker-lampson/)

> [Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-locker-lampson/vanitas-vanitatum-has-rung-in-the-ears-of-gentle-and-simple-for/)

[Frederick Locker-Lampson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-locker-lampson/)

> [I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-locker-lampson/i-believe-that-nothing-completely-satisfies-an-imaginative-writer-but/)

[Frederick Locker-Lampson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-locker-lampson/)

> [It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-locker-lampson/it-is-a-good-thing-to-read-books-and-need-not-be-a-bad-thing-to-write/)

[Frederick Locker-Lampson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-locker-lampson/)

> [The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-locker-lampson/the-world-s-as-ugly-as-sin-and-almost-as-delightful/)

[Frederick Locker-Lampson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-locker-lampson/)

> [I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up and kissed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-locker-lampson/i-recollect-a-nurse-called-ann-who-carried-me-about-the-grass-and-one/)

[Frederick Locker-Lampson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-locker-lampson/)

> [Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-locker-lampson/lightly-i-sped-when-hope-was-high-and-youth-beguiled-the-chase-i/)

[Frederick Locker-Lampson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-locker-lampson/)

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