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. (Charles Lamb)

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.

Charles Lamb

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