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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

Charles Lamb

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another human being.

Charles Lamb

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is, perhaps, cowardice.

Charles Lamb

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

Charles Lamb

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Charles Lamb

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

Charles Lamb