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I have something more to do than to feel. (Charles Lamb)
It argues an insensibility. View quote
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And half had staggered that stout Stagirite. View quote
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Neat, not gaudy. View quote
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat? View quote
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Thou in such a cloud dost bind us, That our worst foes cannot find us, And ill fortune, that would thwart us, Shoots at rovers, shooting at us; While each man, through thy height'ning steam, Does like a smoking Etna seem. View quote
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. View quote
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Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question. View quote
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Nursed amid her [London's] noise, her crowds, her beloved smoke, what have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with usury to such scenes? View quote
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Fanny Kelly's divine plain face. View quote
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Each day used to be individually felt by me in its reference to the foreign post days; in its distance from, or propinquity to, the next Sunday. I had my Wednesday feelings, my Saturday nights' sensations. (Charles Lamb)
A good-natured woman...which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor. View quote
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. View quote
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. View quote
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A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. View quote
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. View quote
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. View quote
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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. View quote
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. View quote
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How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! View quote
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life. (Charles Lamb)
I could never hate anyone I knew. View quote
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. View quote
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. View quote
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The beggar wears all colors fearing none. View quote
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Charles Lamb

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Occupation: British Essayist
Born: February 10, 1775
Died: December 27, 1834
Quotes count: 170
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