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Charles Lamb Author

  • Gender: Male
  • Born: Feb 10, 1775
  • Died: Dec 27, 1834

Charles Lamb was an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb.

He also wrote a number of poems, and was part of a literary circle in England, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, whom he befriended. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

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

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

The 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.