03c. 1804 ADMan is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
04c. 1804 ADThe teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
07c. 1804 ADI have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless fruitless barren attention!Charles Lamb / quote ↗
08c. 1804 ADIn the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
11c. 1804 ADWe all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
12c. 1804 ADThe only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people's time not his.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
13c. 1804 ADNothing puzzles me more than the time and space and yet nothing troubles me less.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
14c. 1804 ADThe human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
15c. 1804 ADThe 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.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
