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

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Names, Sound

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Parent, Serious

  Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]”, p.167

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• If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

  Charles Lamb

  Sick, Solitude, Bed

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.178

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• Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Flower, Eye

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• The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Holiday, Boys

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.294

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• Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Science, Men

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.118

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• There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Soul, Trying

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• What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.

  Charles Lamb

  Christian, Business, Communication

  Charles Lamb (1943). “A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia”

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• Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

  Charles Lamb

  Simplicity

  Letter to S. T. Coleridge, 8 November 1796, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 1 (1975) p. 60

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• Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

  Charles Lamb

  Laughing, Funeral, Awful

  Letter to Robert Southey, 9 August 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 181

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• New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

  Charles Lamb

  Birthday, New Year, Holiday

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• The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

  Charles Lamb

  Kings, Boys, Law

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

  Charles Lamb

  Fear, Color, Beggar

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• A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Shadow, Pieces

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• In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

  Charles Lamb

  Science, World, Behinds

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.53

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• When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Heart, World

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• 'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Sweet, Thinking

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