I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoi…

Charles Lamb
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I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ✨ 'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'The Two Races of Men'
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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?
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 garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. ✨ Charles Lamb (1838). The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The … ▶
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I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ✨ 'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'The Two Races of Men'

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