What did Charles Lamb mean by: Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold. - Charles Lamb Writer · England Copy
+ Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Occasions, Thanksgiving, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ I love to lose myself in other men’s minds…. Books think for me. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Book, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Dull, Recipes, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Good Work, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Being Thankful, Hypocrisy, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Destiny, Errands, Riddle, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there! Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Bed, Sick, Solitude, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ A Persian’s heaven is eas’ly made: ‘T is but black eyes and lemonade. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Black, Eye, Heaven, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art. Explain - Miguel de Cervantes Writer · Spain