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Charles Lamb

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

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

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."

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"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."

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"My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it."
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"The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days."
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"Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less."
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"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
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"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life."
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"Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it."
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"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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