Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with…

Charles Lamb
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. ✨ Charles Lamb (1838). Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H, p.75
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. ✨ Charles Lamb (1845). The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.], p.45
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 book. ✨ Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1903). The Works of Charles and Mary … ▶
A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

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