Charles Lamb Quotes
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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Gone beforeTo that unknown and silent shore.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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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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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
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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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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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Nay, rather,Plant divine, of rarest virtue;Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.
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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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