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• Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."

  Charles Lamb

  Business, Women, Two

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John G. Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

  Charles Lamb

  Littles, Merit, God Knows

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1856). “The Life and Letters”, p.111

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• He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

  Charles Lamb

  Perfection, Mixtures, Matter

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.48

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• No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Time, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• It is good to have friends at court.

  Charles Lamb

  Friends, Court

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.297

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• For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

  Charles Lamb

  Dog, Gentleman, Sake

  Letter to Coleridge, August 6, 1800.

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• Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Opinion

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• All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  Faces, Gone, Joyful

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

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• Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

  Charles Lamb

  Tombstone, Doe, Looks

  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.216

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• Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.

  Charles Lamb

  Angel, Giving, Water

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.138

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• Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

  Charles Lamb

  Art, Science, World

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1850). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.292

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• Man is a gaming animal.

  Charles Lamb

  Animal, Men, Gambling

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40

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• So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Littles, Sometimes

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.368

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• The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

  Charles Lamb

  Fancy, Wanderers

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.71

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• There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Reading, Jealous

  Charles Lamb (1894). “The Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Elia”, New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company

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• Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Nerves, Wit

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.9

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• A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Mind

  Charles Lamb (1854). “The essays of Elia...”, p.128

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• Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

  Charles Lamb

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.763, Delphi Classics

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• I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

  Charles Lamb

  Attachment, Done, London

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.108

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• May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

  Charles Lamb

  Smoking, May, Lasts

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• Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

  Charles Lamb

  Thanksgiving, Gluttony, Occasions

  Charles Lamb (1867). “The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia”, p.125

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• Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Heart, Childhood

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• I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

  Charles Lamb

  Music, Thinking, Tunes

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Chapter on Ears'

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• It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Good Man, Doe

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• Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

  Charles Lamb

  Acting, Bears, Excited

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1278, Delphi Classics

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