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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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/nothing-to-me-is-more-distasteful-than-that-entire-complacency-and/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

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> [There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/there-is-absolutely-no-such-thing-as-reading-but-by-a-candle-we-have/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41c/charles-lamb-1144_approach_there-is-absolutely-no-such-thing-as-rea_1387183.jpg)

> [When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/when-twilight-dews-are-falling-soft-upon-the-rosy-sea-love-i-watch/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

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## Other authors on Beam

## More by Charles Lamb

> [Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/reader-if-you-are-gifted-with-nerves-like-mine-aspire-to-any/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/in-the-indications-of-female-poverty-there-can-be-no-disguise-no/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/to-sigh-yet-feel-no-pain-to-weep-yet-scarce-know-why-to-sport-an-hour/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-love-to-lose-myself-in-other-men-s-minds-when-i-am-not-walking-i-am/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/while-childhood-and-while-dreams-producing-childhood-shall-be-left/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/man-while-he-loves-is-never-quite-depraved/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/summer-as-my-friend-coleridge-waggishly-writes-has-set-in-with-its/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/here-cometh-april-again-and-as-far-as-i-can-see-the-world-hath-more/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/a-presentation-copy-is-a-copy-of-a-book-whoch-does-not-sell-sent-you/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-counsel-thee-shut-not-thy-heart-nor-thy-library/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/nothing-to-me-is-more-distasteful-than-that-entire-complacency-and/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/my-theory-is-to-enjoy-life-but-the-practice-is-against-it/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/all-all-are-gone-the-old-familiar-faces/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/those-evening-bells-those-evening-bells-how-many-a-tale-their-music/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

> [Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/beholding-heaven-and-feeling-hell/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

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