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Shakespeare is one...

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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Source: Letter, 1 Feb. 1806, to William Wordsworth (published in Bibliophile, 1840).
-- Charles Lamb, (Feb 10 1775-1834), English essayist, author; The Mitre Courtier was master of the essay, e.g., Essays of Elia, 1823.


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