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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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• 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

  Law, Ears, Pistols

  1833 Of puns. Last Essays of Elia,'Popular Fallacies', no.9.

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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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• The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

  Charles Lamb

  Silence, Dumb, Apollo

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1849). “The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.264

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• We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Might, Lethe

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.113

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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

  Boys, People, Way

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.58

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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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• I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!

  Charles Lamb

  Wall, Tired, Air

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.196

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• For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

  Charles Lamb

  Smoking, Sake, Tobacco

  'A Farewell to Tobacco' l. 122

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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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• 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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• No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

  Charles Lamb

  Dresses, Caprice, Mere

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

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Names, Sound

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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