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• You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!

  Charles Lamb

  Play, Age, Cards

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• I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Childhood, Gone

  "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

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• Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Time, Home

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• I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Men, Thinking

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.189

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• I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.167

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• I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

  Charles Lamb

  Prejudice, Made, Bundles

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.35

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• Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

  Charles Lamb

  Cousin, Brother, Father

  Charles Lamb, “The Old FaMILIar Faces”

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• For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

  Charles Lamb

  Body, Sometimes, Speak

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.12

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• Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

  Charles Lamb

  Walking Sticks, Literature, Crutches

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• The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

  Charles Lamb

  Truth, Latitude And Longitude, Tales

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.181

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• Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

  Charles Lamb

  Summer, Writing, Usual

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.

  Charles Lamb

  Apples, Soul, Library

  Charles Lamb (1867). “Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters”, p.320

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• How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  Taken, Departed, Gone

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.608

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• Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

  Charles Lamb

  Doors, Sound, Rural Life

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'Valentine's Day'

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• The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

  Charles Lamb

  Drinking, Men, Sober

  1833 Last Essays of Elia,'Confessions of a Drunkard'.

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• A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

  Charles Lamb

  Knowledge, Men, Acquisition

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.64

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• Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Memories, Heart

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• Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

  Charles Lamb

  Home, Charity, Philanthropy

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• How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!

  Charles Lamb

  Cheer, Children, Husband

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• A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Doe, Favour

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.288

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• Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

  Charles Lamb

  Faith, Mistake, Dark

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• I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Smoking, Toil

  On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262

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• Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

  Charles Lamb

  Gambling, Folds

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• Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

  Charles Lamb

  Life, Pain, Evidence

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.234

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• Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

  Charles Lamb

  Work, Holiday, Dry

  Charles Lamb (1860). “The Works of Charles Lamb ...”, p.385

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