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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.

— Charles Lamb

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

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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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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