More from Charles Lamb

  1. Books think for me.
  2. How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.
  3. I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
  4. Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
  5. A poor relation-is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
  6. A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
  7. Presents, I often say, endear absents.
  8. A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; f…

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