Charles Lamb
British essayist
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She could never heartily bring her mouth to pronounce 'go' or 'that's a go'. She called [cribbage] an ungrammatical game.
—Charles Lamb, British essayist, The Essays of Elia, 1823
Posted on April 14, 1998 at 6:28 PM
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
—Charles Lamb, British essayist, The Last Essays of Elia, 1833
Posted on April 19, 1999 at 9:27 PM
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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, Bibliophile
Posted on August 14, 2001 at 9:00 AM
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Borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
—Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
Posted on October 23, 2001 at 9:21 AM
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