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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