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I am sure that indolence – indefeasible indolence – is the true state of man, and business the invention of the old Teazer.	Charles Lamb
I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful schooldays – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.	Charles Lamb
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 never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.	Charles Lamb
Positively, the best thing a man can have to do is nothing and, next to that, perhaps, good works.	Charles Lamb
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.	Charles Lamb
Who first invented Work–and tied the free And holy-day rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business, in the green fields, and the town– To plough–loom–anvil–spade–and, oh, most sad, To this dry drudgery of desk’s dead	Charles Lamb