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title: "14 Ifs Quotes By Charles Lamb"
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> [If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/if-dirt-were-trumps-what-hands-you-would-hold/)

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

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> [Not if I know myself at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/not-if-i-know-myself-at-all/)

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

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> [Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/shall-i-ask-the-brave-soldier-who-fights-by-my-side-in-the-cause-of/)

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

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> [He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/he-might-have-proved-a-useful-adjunct-if-not-an-ornament-to-society/)

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

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> [If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/if-there-be-a-regal-solitude-it-is-a-sick-bed-how-the-patient-lords/)

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

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> [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/)

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> [If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/if-thou-would-st-have-me-sing-and-play-as-once-i-play-d-and-sung/)

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

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> [It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/it-is-well-if-the-good-man-himself-does-not-feel-his-devotions-a/)

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

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> [A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/a-presentation-copy-reader-if-haply-you-are-yet-innocent-of-such/)

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

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> [Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/tis-unpleasant-to-meet-a-beggar-it-is-painful-to-deny-him-and-if-you/)

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

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> [The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/the-laws-of-pluto-s-kingdom-know-small-difference-between-king-and/)

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

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/what-a-dead-thing-is-a-clock-with-its-ponderous-embowelments-of-lead/)

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

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> [A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at…](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/)

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> [The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/the-harp-that-once-through-tara-s-halls-the-soul-of-music-shed-now/)

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

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## Other authors on Ifs

## 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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