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" The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. "
Charles Lamb
Pleasure
Action
Good
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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
Old
School Days
School
" 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
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" What is reading, but silent conversation. "
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" Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. "
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Thoughts
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" Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. "
Charles Lamb
Vein
You
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" My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it. "
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Practice
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" Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. "
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Lawyers
Once
Were
" My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. "
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" Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life. "
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" New Year's Day is every man's birthday. "
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Birthday
" I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. "
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Leaving
Late
Early
" The beggar wears all colors fearing none. "
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Wears
Beggar
Colors
" 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
Nothing
Men
I Am
" Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. "
Charles Lamb
Cards
War
Sport
" For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. "
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Anything
Die
Sake
" 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
People
Nothing
Gratitude
" 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. "
Charles Lamb
Appearance
Shine
Soul
" Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. "
Charles Lamb
Me
Once
Anything
" 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. "
Charles Lamb
Pun
Intellect
Laws
" Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. "
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Us
Beauty
Own
" Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. "
Charles Lamb
Gaming
He
Trying
" Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. "
Charles Lamb
Privilege
Talk
Nonsense
" Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. "
Charles Lamb
Troubles
Me
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