Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
– Charles Lamb
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- He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. – Charles Lamb
- It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. – Franklin P. Jones
- He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. – Charles Lamb
- New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. – Charles Lamb
- Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. – Charles Lamb
- Presents, I often say, endear Absents. – Charles Lamb
- Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. – Charles Lamb
- Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. – Charles Lamb
- Don’t introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can’t hate a man whom I know. – Charles Lamb
- Don’t introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can’t hate a man whom I know. – Charles Lamb