Charles Lamb Quotes

• Fanny Kelly’s divine plain face.

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• The rogue gives you Love Powders, and then a strong horse drench to bring ’em off your stomach that they mayn’t hurt you.

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• An Archangel a little damaged.

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• This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.

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• A child’s a plaything for an hour.

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• Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

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• Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

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• Nursed amid her noise, her crowds, her beloved smoke—what have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with usury to such scenes?

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• Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

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• I have something more to do than feel.

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• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

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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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• What is reading, but silent conversation.

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• I love to lose myself in other men’s minds…. Books think for me.

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• I love to lose myself in other men’s minds.

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• I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

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• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

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• Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

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• We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

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• We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

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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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