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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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• I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

  Charles Lamb

  Music, Thinking, Tunes

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Chapter on Ears'

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• No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

  Charles Lamb

  Dresses, Caprice, Mere

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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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• Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

  Charles Lamb

  Dining Alone, Dinner, Eating

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1855). “The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.185

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• Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will say of it--how such a woman in their friends' eyes will look at the head of a table. Hence we see so many insipid beauties made wives of, that could not have struck the particular fancy of any man that had any fancy at all.

  Charles Lamb

  Eye, Men, Wife

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1913). “Miscellaneous prose (1798-1834)”

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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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• I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Enemy, Pun

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Charles Edmund Brock, Winifred Green, Charles Robinson (1903). “The Works of Charles Lamb”

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• By myself walking, To myself talking.

  Charles Lamb

  Talking, Walking

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1836). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb. [With Six Poems by Mary Lamb.] A New Edition”, p.28

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• I have something more to do than to feel.

  Charles Lamb

  Feels

  On the death of his mother, at his sister Mary's hands: letter to Coleridge, 1796, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb'

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• The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

  Charles Lamb

  Fear, Color, Beggar

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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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• 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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• 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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