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Best Quotes by Charles Lamb (Top 10)

  1. Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
  2. I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
  3. Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
  4. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
  5. Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
  6. New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
  7. Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
  8. 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.
  9. My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
  10. I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

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