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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Better
Extremes
Book
Listen
Without
Novel
Glide
Even
Modern
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Books
Hurry
Never
Interest
Quick
Eye
Novels
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