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Quotes from Essays of Elia — Charles Lamb

1775–1834 England

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Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Essays of Elia (1823)

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

Essays of Elia (1823)

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.

Essays of Elia (1823)

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

Essays of Elia (1823)

Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.

Essays of Elia (1823)

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.

Essays of Elia (1823)

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

Essays of Elia (1823)

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

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Presents, I often say, endear absents.

Essays of Elia (1823)

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Essays of Elia (1823)

It is good to love the unknown.

Essays of Elia (1823)

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Essays of Elia (1823)

It argues an insensibility.

Essays of Elia (1823)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Lamb (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.