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Charles Lamb Quotes: I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
         

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.


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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.



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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.



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I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.



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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.



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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.



How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?



For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.





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