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Charles Lamb quotes

English Critic February 10, 1775 – July 27, 1834

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Charles Lamb quote: "Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Charles Lamb
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb quote: "Riches are chiefly good because they give us time."
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. Charles Lamb
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history! Charles Lamb
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. Charles Lamb
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. Charles Lamb
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. Charles Lamb
I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death?' I forget the decision. Charles Lamb
Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the... Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb quote: "The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and..."
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb quote: "The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth..."
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb quote: "I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their..."
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb quote: "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet..."
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb quote: "Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Charles Lamb
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. Charles Lamb

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