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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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