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• The last breath I drew in he wished might be through a pipe and exhaled in a pun.

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• A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

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• Things in book’s clothing.

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• The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

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• If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!

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• How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man’s self to himself.

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• Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.

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• Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

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• Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

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• The uncommunicating muteness of fishes.

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• A votary of the desk—a notched and cropt scrivener—one that sucks his substance, as certain sick people are said to do, through a quill.

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• She unbent her mind afterwards—over a book.

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• Presents, I often say, endear Absents.

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• Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

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• Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.

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• I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature…but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.

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• In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopedia behind the rest of the world.

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• I hate a man who swallows it, affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

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• Who first invented work—and tied the free And holy-day rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business?

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• Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

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Charles Lamb (77)

Birth:	10th February, 1775
Death:	27th December, 1834
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Poet

About

Charles Lamb was born in Inner Temple, London, England. He was an English essayist and poet. best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb.

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