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Presents, I often say, endear absents. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
Lawyers I suppose were children once. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, 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 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopedia behind the rest of the world. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty, Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
The vices of some men are magnificent. Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic 
They can't censor the gleam in my eye. Charles Laughton  
Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage. Charles Luckman  
Since the regimentation of Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters in control of the American Medical Association, this organization has become one of the most vicious rackets in the country. Charles Lyman Loffler  
You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose. Charles Lynch  
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. Charles M. Allen American Professor 
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' 
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' 
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed. Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' 
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' 
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand. Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' 
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' 
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right. Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' 
It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere. Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' 
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere. Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' 
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' 
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
The man who has done his best has done everything. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman 
When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it. Charles M. Smith  
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. Charles Mackay 1814-1889, Scottish Poet, Song Writer 
The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe. Charles Mackay 1814-1889, Scottish Poet, Song Writer 
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. Charles Mackay 1814-1889, Scottish Poet, Song Writer 
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it. Charles Macklin  



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