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"When I was a little boy at school, floundering through Herodotus, and getting double doses of fum-fum daily for my An…"

"Every child knows how fond cats are of hunting and catching mice, but no cat any respectability would think of confin…"

"I have dozens of well-authenticated anecdotes of cats who are very expert at fishing. I have, myself, watched a cat b…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

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"Lamb was the first English writer of eminence whom Crabb Robinson tried to convince of the excellence of Goethe."