"We all have some taste or other, of……" — Charles Lamb
"We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one."
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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 Acquired Quotes
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
— Franklin P. Adams
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
— H. Rap Brown
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
— Smedley Butler
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
— Willa Cather
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
— Lord Chesterfield
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
— Kate Chopin
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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