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One Quotes by Charles Lamb
- No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.…
- 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…
- The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of…
- The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you…
- 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 one freshly strung.
- Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.
- When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people…
- No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
- We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
- 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…
- Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
- Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer…
- When I consider how little of a rarity children arethat every street and blind alley swarms with themthat the poorest people commonly have them in…
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