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Quote by Charles Lamb
For Gods sake (I never was more serious) dont make me ridiculous a

For Gods sake (I never was more serious) dont make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print… substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question. – Charles Lamb

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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. – Charles Lamb

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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their fathers religion, if they can find out what it is. – Charles Lamb

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He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. – Charles Lamb

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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. – Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. – Charles Caleb Colton

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A good name is better than precious ointment. Ecclesiastes 7:1 – Bible

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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. – St. Evermond

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