Charles Lamb Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Charles Lamb:
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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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
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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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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
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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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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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New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
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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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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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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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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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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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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
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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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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
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What is reading, but silent conversation.
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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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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
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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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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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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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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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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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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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It is good to love the unknown.
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