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• Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

  Charles Lamb

  Blessed, Veins, Irony

  Charles Lamb (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.75

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• It is good to love the unknown.

  Charles Lamb

  Love

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.243, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

  Charles Lamb

  Prayer, Giving Up, Book

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1903). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia”

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• She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Mind

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'Mrs Battle's Opinions on Whist'

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• The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Recipes, Dull

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 15 February 1802 (quoting from 'The Londoner', no. 1), in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 2 (1976) p. 57

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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

  Life, Friendship, Mountain

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Letters ... with a sketch of his life”, p.154

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• The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

  Charles Lamb

  Purpose, Letters, Festivals

  Charles Lamb (1841). “The Essays of Elia”

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• Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.

  Charles Lamb

  Cheer, Fear, Thinking

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• I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

  Charles Lamb

  I Like You, Book, Historical

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1836). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montombery, Lamb, and Kirke White: Complete in One Volume”, p.413

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• Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

  Charles Lamb

  Luxury, Tea, Delicacy

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.120

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• Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Names, Sound

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• The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

  Charles Lamb

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

  Charles Lamb

  Animal, Cages, Wild Animal

  Charles Lamb (1838). “Last essays of Elia”, p.93

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• Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

  Charles Lamb

  Observation, Truism, Commonplace

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

  Charles Lamb

  Dresses, Caprice, Mere

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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.

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Children, Kind

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'

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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.

  Charles Lamb

  Knowing, Feelings, Attention

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'

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

  Charles Lamb

  Hands, Dirt, Trump

  In Leigh Hunt 'Lord Byron and his Contemporaries' (1828) p. 299

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• A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.

  Charles Lamb

  Brother, Book, Doe

  "Last Essays of Elia". Book by Charles Lamb, 1833.

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• In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

  Charles Lamb

  Strong, Faces, Yearning

  CHARLES LAMB. (1857). “THE ESSAYS OF ELIA.”, p.76

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• This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

  Charles Lamb

  Understanding, Mind, Topics

  Charles Lamb (1864). “Eliana: Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.25

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• While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Children, Wings

  Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, Mary Lamb (1899). “The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes”

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• I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

  Charles Lamb

  Garden, Poetry, Simplicity

  Charles Lamb (1858). “The letter of Charles Lamb, newly arranged: with additions; ed., with introduction and notes”, p.38

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• An album is a garden, not for show
  Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.

  Charles Lamb

  Garden, Albums, Use

  Charles Lamb (1866). “The works of Charles Lamb”, p.368

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• I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

  Charles Lamb

  Tombstone, Ordinary, Disgusting

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