This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely the… - Charles Lamb

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This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.

Charles Lamb

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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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Pen Names: Elia

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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone!
In whose capacious all-embracing leaves
The very marrow of tradition 's shown;
And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library

Rather was it not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a wearisome anxiety to find out how to make the most of them? Where was the quiet, where the promised rest?

This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized. - Charles Lamb

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