Quotes of Charles Lamb - somelinesforyou

“ I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ What is reading, but silent conversation. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. ”

- Charles Lamb

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

- Charles Lamb

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

- Charles Lamb

“ I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Presents, I often say, endear absents. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ 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. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ 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. ”

- Charles Lamb

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

- Charles Lamb

“ 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… ”

- Charles Lamb

“ We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ The vices of some men are magnificent. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ 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. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”

- Charles Lamb
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