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Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

Charles Lamb

Women, Wife, Maids

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A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

Charles Lamb

Distance, Doors, Sublime

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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

Charles Lamb

Sweet, Children, Bears

Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.141

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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (2013). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.143, Cosimo, Inc.

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I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Charles Lamb

Despair, Trying, Scottish

Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.221, Cosimo, Inc.

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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

Charles Lamb

Two, Smoking, Three

Charles Lamb (1848). “Final memorials of Charles Lamb, letters [ed.] with sketches of some of his companions by T.N. Talfourd”, p.135

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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

Moving, Home, Beer

Charles Lamb (1866). “The works of Charles Lamb”, p.237

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What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.

Charles Lamb

Health, Meals, Blank

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Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Charles Lamb

Flower, Sea, Wish

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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

Charles Lamb

Eye, Heaven, Watches

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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

Charles Lamb

Music, Pain, Italian

Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

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Not if I know myself at all.

Charles Lamb

Knowledge, Knows, Ifs

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.68

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Mother's love grows by giving.

Charles Lamb

Family, Mom, Mother

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.196

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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

Charles Lamb

Marriage, Wedding, Couple

Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.79

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Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

Charles Lamb

Hair, Enthusiasm, Spirit

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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

Charles Lamb

Heart, Blades, Stains

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A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Lamb

Fire, Gambling, Games

Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.181, Cosimo, Inc.

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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

Charles Lamb

Book, Looks, Taught

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Books which are no books.

Charles Lamb

Book

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

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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.

Charles Lamb

Glasses, Imagination, Quality

Charles Lamb (1828). “Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine”, p.195

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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.

Charles Lamb

Sweet, Water, Valleys

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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!

Charles Lamb

Half, World, May

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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Charles Lamb

Mind, Body, Absence

Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.205

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(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.

Charles Lamb

Grateful, Pigs, Might

Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.121

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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

Charles Lamb

Book, Thinking, I Can Read

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Born: February 10, 1775
Died: December 27, 1834
Occupation: Writer
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