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

Friendship

4.1 · 29 votes

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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

Family

5.0 · 39 votes

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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.

Words

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Borrowers of books -those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Literature

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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Attitude

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Charles Lamb

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For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentl
4.7 · 23 votes · 4 reads
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Art and Culture
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
4.6 · 33 votes · 27 reads
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Government and Politics
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
3.4 · 42 votes · 141 reads
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Defects
How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
4.3 · 47 votes · 102 reads
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Art and Culture
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
4.2 · 41 votes · 48 reads
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Government and Politics
Lawyers I suppose were children once.
4.4 · 51 votes · 83 reads
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Various
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
3.1 · 58 votes · 4 reads
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Feelings
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
4.5 · 38 votes · 12 reads
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Art and Culture
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
3.9 · 40 votes · 67 reads
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Feelings
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
4.1 · 48 votes · 181 reads
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
3.0 · 62 votes · 174 reads
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Feelings
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
3.7 · 59 votes · 3 reads
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Various
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
4.8 · 60 votes · 45 reads
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Various
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
4.0 · 61 votes · 122 reads
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Art and Culture
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
3.9 · 24 votes · 55 reads
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Thought and Reason
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
3.0 · 20 votes · 1 reads
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Government and Politics
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.
4.1 · 51 votes · 33 reads
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Various
Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
3.6 · 40 votes · 185 reads
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When I consider how little of a rarity children are - that every street and blind alley swarms with them - that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance - that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -
3.3 · 22 votes · 196 reads
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Art and Culture
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he
3.0 · 15 votes · 157 reads
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