Reader, if you wrest my words beyond their fair construction, it is you, and not I, that are the April Fool. - Charles Lamb

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Reader, if you wrest my words beyond their fair construction, it is you, and not I, that are the April Fool.

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About Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist and poet, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.

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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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