I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Charles Lamb
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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. ✨ Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works, p.89
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. ✨ Charles Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Mary Lamb … ▶
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. ✨ Letter to Robert Southey, 9 August 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 181
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. ✨ Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1849). The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd, p.253
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

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