I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts—a grace before Milton—a grace before Shakespeare—a devotional exercise—proper to be said before reading the Fairy Queen?
-Charles Lamb, "Grace Before Meat," Essays of Elia and Last Essays
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