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I could never hate anyone I knew. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#could #hate #i #knew #never

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

#gifts #gratitude #knack #nothing #people

What is reading, but silent conversation. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#reading #silent

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

#book #books #dying #give #just

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#her #nonsense #privilege #respected #talk

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#behavior #caught #early #first #hardship

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#book #her #mind #over #she

I love the most the students with troubled lives. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#i love #lives #love #most #students

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#course #crowd #far #love #more

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#design #life #may #ourselves #presence