QUOTES by Charles Lamb
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"Oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence."
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"Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?"
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"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading."
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"Dream not...of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad."
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"There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine."
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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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"Rather was it not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a wearisome anxiety to find out how to make the most of them? Where was the quiet, where the promised rest?"
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"Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart."
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"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment."
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"Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door."
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"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me"
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"Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!"
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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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"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."
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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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"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 man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."
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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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"Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it."
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"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing."
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"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."
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"The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend."
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"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."
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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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"I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces."
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"Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book."
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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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"The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen."
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