"He might have proved a useful adjunct, if……" — Charles Lamb
"He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society."
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Charles Lamb
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192 Quotes by Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb has 192 quotes on this site.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
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His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
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More Adjunct Quotes
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Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The self...can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being,…
— Jane Roberts
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Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and…
— Jerome Bruner
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If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels,…
— Paul Fussell
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A beautiful eyelash is an important adjunct to the eye. The lashes may be lengthened by trimming them occasionally in…
— Eliza Bisbee Duffey
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Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an…
— Chris Ware
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I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.
— Robert Stack
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In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and…
— Vernon Coleman
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Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.
— William Shakespeare
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful…
— Walter Dean Myers
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