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Charles Lamb [1775-1834] English

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems), Writer

Romanticism, Children, Blank verse

Charles Lamb was an English writer and 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.

Beauty, Legal, Birthday, Friendship, New Year's, Religion, Space, Sports, Strength, Time

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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.		101
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.	Beauty	102
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.	Legal	103
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.		104
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.		105
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.	Birthday, New Year's	106
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.	Beauty	107
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.		108
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.		109
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.	Friendship	110
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.		111
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.		112
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.		113
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.		114
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.		115
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.	Religion	116
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.	Space, Time	117
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.		118
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.	Sports	119
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.		120
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.		121
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.	Legal	122
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.		123
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.		124
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.		125
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.	Strength	126
It is good to love the unknown.		201
I could never hate anyone I knew.		202
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.		203
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.		204
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.		205
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.		206
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.		207
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.		208
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.		209
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.		210
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.		211
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.		212
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.		213
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.		214
What is reading, but silent conversation.		215
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.		216
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.		217
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.		218
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.		219

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