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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

~Charles Lamb

Topics: Contented Little More Motto My Motto Wishing

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

~Charles Lamb

Topics: Always Animal Better Gaming Get He Man Must Other Something Trying

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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

Topics: Childhood Companions Days Faces Familiar Gone Had Joyful Old School School Days

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

~Charles Lamb

Topics: Always Arrive Early Late Leaving Make Make Up Office Up

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

~Charles Lamb

Topics: Conversation Reading Silent

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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

~Charles Lamb

Topics: Against Enjoy Enjoy Life Life Practice Theory

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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

~Charles Lamb

Topics: Beggar Colors Fearing None Wears

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

~Charles Lamb

Topics: Beauty Let Us Live Our Own Reality Us

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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

Topics: Been Better Book Dirt Dog Ears Having Know Known Long Muffins Our Own Read Reads Tea Trace Us Which

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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

Topics: Bound Ear Feather Intellect Laws Limit Nicer Off Pistol Pun Tickle Which Wit

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: February 10th, 1775

Died: December 27th, 1834

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