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Reading Quotes by Charles Lamb
- He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
- 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,…
- 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…
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