A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known t…

Charles Lamb
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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, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. ✨ Charles Lamb (1841). The Essays of Elia, p.62
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it. ✨ Charles Lamb (1835). Essays of Elia, p.156
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ✨ Charles Lamb (1835). Essays of Elia, p.40
Presents, I often say, endear absents. ✨ 'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Dissertation upon Roast Pig'
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ✨ The Old Familiar Faces l. 1 (1798)

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