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An English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb. Charles Lamb (London, 10 February 1775 – Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). Lamb has been referred to by E.V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as the most lovable figure in English literature, and his influence on the English essay form surely cannot be overestimated. Here are some famous quotes by Charles Lamb.
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Neat not gaudy.
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Books think for me.
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Man is a gaming animal.
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Lawyers I suppose were children once.
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New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
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For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die.
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.
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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.
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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.
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'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
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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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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
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We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.
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We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself; the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people's time not his.
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I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless fruitless barren attention!