| Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| Mother's love grows by giving. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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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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- Charles Lamb |
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| I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| But there 's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam? |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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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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- Charles Lamb |
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| How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| New Year's Day is every man's birthday. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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| What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. |
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- Charles Lamb |
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