Charles Lamb Short Quotes

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

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Gone before
To that unknown and silent shore.

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The flouting infidel doth mock when Christians cry

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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

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For thy sake, tobacco, I
Would do anything but die.

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Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!

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A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.

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

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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

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Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

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Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

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His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

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He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

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The fine lady, or fine gentleman, who show me their teeth, show me bones.

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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

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Thou through such a mist dost show us,
That our best friends do not know us.

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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

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The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.

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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.

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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

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