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Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged…

Quote byCharles Lamb · 1775–1834

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Coleridge (14 August 1800).

English (original)

Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.

— Charles Lamb

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