Charles Lamb Quotes
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~ Charles Lamb Quote
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.
~ Charles Lamb Quote
If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.
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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
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I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
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I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.
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Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is, perhaps, cowardice.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
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New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life
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A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
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