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He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

— Charles Lamb

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

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

Last Essays of Elia (1833)

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Last Essays of Elia (1833)

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

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

Essays of Elia (1823)

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