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Book Quotes by Charles Lamb
- I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much…
- My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
- Books which are no books.
- He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
- A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the…
- Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer…
- She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
- A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots,…
- I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
- I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
- There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and…
- In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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