What did Charles Lamb mean by: In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding. - Charles Lamb Writer · England Copy
+ To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Honey, Sugar, Sweetness, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there! Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Bed, Sick, Solitude, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Animal, Gambling, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,–the most unwholesome of food. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Mind, Prey, Work, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Memories, Soul, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Poverty, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Character, Nerves, Wit, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ Dream not … of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad! Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Dream, Mad, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids. - Jean Craighead George
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. - Lin Yutang Writer · China
