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Half as sober as a judge.

I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. - Charles Lamb ,

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. - Charles Lamb ,

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

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Neat, not gaudy.

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . Sabbathless Satan!