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Charles Lamb
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
— Charles Lamb, 1833

[edit] Source

  • Charles Lamb, "On Books and Reading", The Last Essays of Elia, 1833
Quote reproduced in
  • Crystal, David; Hillary Crystal (2000). Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages. University of Chicago Press, Page 276. ISBN 0226122018.