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Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will say of it--how such a woman in their friends' eyes will look at the head of a table. Hence we see so many insipid beauties made wives of, that could not have struck the particular fancy of any man that had any fancy at all.

Charles Lamb

Eye, Men, Wife

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1913). “Miscellaneous prose (1798-1834)”

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All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

Charles Lamb

People, Superstitions, Sides

Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.32

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(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.

Charles Lamb

Grateful, Pigs, Might

Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.121

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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Charles Lamb

Mind, Body, Absence

Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.205

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The light that lies In woman's eyes.

Charles Lamb

Lying, Eye, Light

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Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid

Charles Lamb

Sleep, Names, Shade

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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

Charles Lamb

Marriage, Wedding, Couple

Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.79

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A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Lamb

Fire, Gambling, Games

Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.181, Cosimo, Inc.

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As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion, Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.

Charles Lamb

Sweet, Stars, Prayer

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Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

Charles Lamb

Years, Heaven, Spheres

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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

Charles Lamb

Eye, Heaven, Black

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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!

Charles Lamb

Half, World, May

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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

Charles Lamb

Book, Looks, Taught

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Books which are no books.

Charles Lamb

Book

Charles Lamb (1841). “The Essays of Elia”

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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.

Charles Lamb

Glasses, Imagination, Quality

Charles Lamb (1828). “Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine”, p.195

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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.

Charles Lamb

Sweet, Water, Valleys

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He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Charles Lamb

Society, Ornaments, Might

Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.340

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Charles Lamb

Children, Pride, People

Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.133

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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

Charles Lamb

Heart, Stealing, Stolen

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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

Charles Lamb

Health, Men, Self

'Last Essays of Elia' (1833) 'The Convalescent'

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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

Charles Lamb

Reading, Needs, Ears

Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.192

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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Charles Lamb

Charity, Purses, Philanthropy

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.138

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Not if I know myself at all.

Charles Lamb

Knowledge, Knows, Ifs

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.68

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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

Charles Lamb

Silence, Gone, Silent

'Hester' (1803) st. 7

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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

Charles Lamb

Book, Demand, Binding

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1860). “The essays of Elia”, p.207

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Born: February 10, 1775
Died: December 27, 1834
Occupation: Writer
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