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I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days,...
By Charles Lamb
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
By Charles Lamb
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
By Charles Lamb
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
By Charles Lamb
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
By Charles Lamb
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
By 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. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
By Charles Lamb
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
By Charles Lamb
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
By Charles Lamb
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
By Charles Lamb
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
By Charles Lamb
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
By 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.
By Charles Lamb