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Charles Lamb
I have passed...
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you...
Newspapers always excite...
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of...
The teller of...
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute...
The greatest pleasure...
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by...
Damn the age....
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.
Source: English Wits, L. Russell.
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Shakespeare is one...
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a...
Nothing puzzles me...
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about...
The man must...
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Man is a...
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
A laugh is...
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed....
In everything that...
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the...
Credulity is the...
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Source: Essays of Elia,...
The vices of...
The vices of some men are magnificent.
Source: In
He is no...
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Source: In
Tis the privilege...
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
The beggar is...
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
We are nothing;...
We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores...
Riddle of destiny,...
Riddle of destiny, who can show
What thy short visit meant, or know
What thy errand here...
Riches are chiefly...
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Source: In
The beggar wears...
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Source: In