"A child's nature is too serious a thing……" — Charles Lamb

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its… - Charles Lamb

"A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being."

— Charles Lamb

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192 Quotes by Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb has 192 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing…
Mother's love grows by giving.
Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in…
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and…
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody…
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to… — Dave Barry
I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do… — Glenn Beck
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took… — Kate Beckinsale
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better… — Erma Bombeck
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United… — Bono
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. — Daniel Boone

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