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«What a liberal confounding of those pedantic distinctions of meum and tuum! or rather what a noble simplification of language!»
«A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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approximation, correspondence, Correspondences, haunting, impertinent, irrelevant, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, preposterous
«The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.»
«I came home . . . hungry as a hunter.»
«Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.»
«In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.»
«A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature»
«Presents, I often say, endear absents.»
«Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, an»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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Teachers and teaching
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at ease, awkward, Gulliver, out of place, schoolmaster
«To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.»
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