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• Brandy-and-water spoils two good things. -- Charles Lamb
• The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found out by accident.
  -- Charles Lamb...
• Call things by their right names.... Glass of brandy and water!
  That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation....
• Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. -- Charles Lamb
• The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct race
  hen men who borrow, and the men who lend. -- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)...
• The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
  Charles Lamb ['Essays of Elia', 1823]...
• Call things by their right names... Glass of brandy and water!
  That is the current but not the appropriate name...
• Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb
• My motto is, "Contented with little, yet wishing for more." -- Charles Lamb