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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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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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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
Charles Lamb
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
Charles Lamb
Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
Charles Lamb
If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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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.
Charles Lamb
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
Charles Lamb
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
Charles Lamb
A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
Charles Lamb
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
Charles Lamb
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
Charles Lamb
No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
Charles Lamb