I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!
Presents, I often say, endear absents. - Charles Lamb
Presents, I often say, endear absents.
- Charles Lamb
How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked! - Charles Lamb
How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing. - Charles Lamb
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. - Charles Lamb
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think. - Charles Lamb
When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected. - Charles Lamb
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger. - Charles Lamb
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. - Charles Lamb
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. - Charles Lamb
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
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