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• His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

  Charles Lamb

  Sarcastic, Voice, Obnoxious

  Charles Lamb (1870). “The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.454

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

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  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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• Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

  Charles Lamb

  Hair, Enthusiasm, Spirit

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• Books which are no books.

  Charles Lamb

  Book

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Couple

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

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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.

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  Book, Thinking, I Can Read

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• A babe is fed with milk and praise.

  Charles Lamb

  Childhood, Milk, Praise

  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.292

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• In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

  Charles Lamb

  Dresses, Female, Poverty

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.154

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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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• 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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