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"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom"
Walter Benjamin, Critic
"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright"
Walter Benjamin, Critic
"Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books, not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like"
Walter Benjamin, Critic
"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion"
Walter Benjamin, Critic
"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know"
Walter Benjamin, Critic
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock"
Walter Benjamin, Critic
"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, Critic
"The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"The beggar wears all colors fearing none"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"I love to lose myself in other men's minds"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"It is good to love the unknown"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"Riches are chiefly good because they give us time"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other"
Charles Lamb, Critic
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