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Charles Lamb has 198 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul…
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon…
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so…
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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;…
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His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
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