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Charles Lamb Quotes about Holiday

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.345

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.294