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

- Charles Lamb

Better, Gaming, Always, Animal

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

- Charles Lamb

Always, Puts, Ever, Excite

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

- Charles Lamb

Time, More, Time And Space, Puzzles

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.

- Charles Lamb

Nothing, Some, Putting, Real Value

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

- Charles Lamb

More, My Motto, Contented, Wishing

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

- Charles Lamb

Blessed, Your, Vein, Clap

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

- Charles Lamb

Late, Always, Arrive, Early

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

- Charles Lamb

Friendship, Talk, Her, Respected

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

Been, Which, Having, Topography

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

Childhood, Old, Had, Companions

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

- Charles Lamb

More, Here, Cometh, Fools

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

- Charles Lamb

Found, Greatest Pleasure, Good Action

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

- Charles Lamb

Beauty, Soul, Through, Possibility

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

- Charles Lamb

Strength, Man, Weakness, Credulity

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

- Charles Lamb

Street, Rare, Fleet, Melancholy

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

- Charles Lamb

Beggar, Wears, None, Fearing

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

- Charles Lamb

Less, Allowed, Latitude, Teller

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

- Charles Lamb

Own, Mates, Capital, Companions

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

- Charles Lamb

Funeral, Once, Makes, Laugh

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

- Charles Lamb

Market, Hundred, Any, Laugh

What is reading, but silent conversation.

- Charles Lamb

Reading, Silent, Conversation

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

- Charles Lamb

Thoughts, Gentle, Inspires, Asparagus

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

- Charles Lamb

Legal, Cannot, Take, Lawyer

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

- Charles Lamb

Best, According, Distinct, Borrow

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

- Charles Lamb

Die, Thy, Would, Tobacco

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

- Charles Lamb

Grow, Like, Very, Slowly

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

- Charles Lamb

Days, Now, Become, Purposes

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

- Charles Lamb

More, Always, Excellent, Longing

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

- Charles Lamb

Give, Last, Large, Shakespeare

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

Feather, Laws, Which, Pun

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