Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, sp… - Charles Lamb

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Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

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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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.

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!

For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. - Charles Lamb

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