Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales…

Charles Lamb
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history! ✨ Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life, p.118
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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
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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. ✨ Charles Lamb (1845). The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.], p.167
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

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