Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lambwas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 February 1775
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New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
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A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature
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All people have their blind side - their superstitions; and I have heard her declare, under the rose, that hearts were her favourite suit.
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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?
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Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door
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Truths, which transcend the searching School-men's vein, / And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.