Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
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Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
Source: The life and letters
“Trample not on the ruins of a man.”
Source: Charles Lamb: Selected Writings
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
Source: Miscellaneous prose (1798-1834)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)
Source: Essays of Elia
“I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
Source: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1820
“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”
“The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.”
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
“Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.”
Source: Essays of Elia
“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”
Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works
“The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.”
Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials
“The vices of some men are magnificent.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: Essays and sketches
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”
Source: Essays of Elia
Source: Essays of Elia
“How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!”
Source: Little essays, sketches and characters, by C. Lamb, selected from his letters by P. Fitzgerald
“There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!”
“A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.”
Source: The essays of Elia...
Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale
“Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.”
Source: Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H
Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials