Charles Lamb
English essayist
Lived from: 1775 - 1834
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 10 february 1775 Died: 27 december 1834
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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Presents, I often say, endear absents.
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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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.
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The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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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
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