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Charles Lamb

"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins."

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"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins."

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Donna Grant

"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."

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Donna Grant

"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

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Donna Grant

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."

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Donna Grant

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

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Donna Grant

"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."

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Donna Grant

"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

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Donna Grant

"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."

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Donna Grant

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

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Donna Grant

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

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Donna Grant

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

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Charles Lamb
"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing."

Gratitude

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Charles Lamb
"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."

War

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Charles Lamb
"She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book."

Mind

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Charles Lamb
"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."

Friendship

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Charles Lamb
"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair."

Hair

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Charles Lamb
"Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other."

Man

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Charles Lamb
"Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts."

Thought

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Charles Lamb
"I love to lose myself in other men's minds."

Love

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Charles Lamb
"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself."

Man

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Charles Lamb
"The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."

Man

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