Andrew Quote by Charles Lamb

“Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?”

Charles Lamb

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

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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.

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“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”

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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

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Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

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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 the beginning…

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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

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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; in that…

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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

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