I like you and your book, ingenious Hone In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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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 cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.Charles Lamb
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,
Charles Lamb
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair
Charles Lamb
Good at a fight, but better at a play Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.
Charles Lamb
Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.
Charles Lamb
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
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