Not who you're looking for? Others named Charles Lamb: British essayist, poet, antiquarian (1775–1834) · British actor (1900-1989) · Irish painter (1893-1964) · British boxer
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“I have something more to do than to feel.”
“[Of Coleridge] His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.”
“And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.”
“I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!”
“Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.”
“The mixture spoils two good things, as Charles Lamb (Elia) used to say of brandy and water.”
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