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| Charles Lamb
A child's a plaything for an hour. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock. 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. Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know. For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. (from A Farewell to Tobacco) Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.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. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret. |
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