Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perha…

Charles Lamb
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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 Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia
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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 Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia

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