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I could never hate anyone I knew.
-Charles Lamb
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Appearance
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The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
-Charles Lamb
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Attitude
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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.
-Charles Lamb
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Children
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
-Charles Lamb
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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
-Charles Lamb
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Competition
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
-Charles Lamb
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Contentment
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
-Charles Lamb
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Family
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
-Charles Lamb
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Fashion
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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
-Charles Lamb
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Friends
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
-Charles Lamb
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'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
-Charles Lamb
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Gifts
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Presents, I often say, endear absents.
-Charles Lamb
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Goodness
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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.
-Charles Lamb
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Home
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
-Charles Lamb
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Humor
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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.
-Charles Lamb
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Illness, Disease, Sickness
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
-Charles Lamb
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Journalism
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
-Charles Lamb
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Laughter
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A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
-Charles Lamb
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Law
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Lawyers I suppose were children once.
-Charles Lamb
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
-Charles Lamb
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News
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
-Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 'Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading'
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Pain
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Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.
-Charles Lamb
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Parties
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
-Charles Lamb
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Poker
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
-Charles Lamb
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Reading
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
-Charles Lamb
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Books by and about Charles Lamb