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Best Quotes by Charles Lamb (Top 10)
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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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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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
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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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More Charles Lamb Quotes
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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