Charles Lamb
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
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"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
"عيد رأس السنة هو ميلاد كل إنسان."
Charles Lamb
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident."
"أعظم سرور أذوقه هو أن أفعل خيرًا خفية، ثم يُكتشف مصادفة."
Charles Lamb
"Man is a gaming animal."
"الإنسان حيوان لعوب."
Charles Lamb
"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected."
"إنها لمزية الصداقة أن تتحدث بالهراء، ويُحترم هراؤها."
Charles Lamb
"Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever."
"ها قد أقبل نيسان من جديد، وما أرى العالم إلا وقد ازداد حمقى أكثر من ذي قبل."
Charles Lamb
"I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair."
"لقد قضيت عمري كله أحاول أن أحب الاسكتلنديين، وها أنا ذا مضطر للتخلي عن هذه التجربة يائسًا."
Charles Lamb
"The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice."
"إن أشد علة مهينة في الطبيعة البشرية... لربما هي الجبن."
Charles Lamb
"If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!"
"لو كان الوحل هو الرابح، فما أيديكم التي ستحملونها!"
Charles Lamb
"Books think for me."
"الكتب تفكر نيابة عني."
Charles Lamb
"Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less."
"ما من شيء يحيرني أكثر من الزمان والمكان، ومع ذلك، ما من شيء يقل إزعاجاً لي منهما."
Charles Lamb
"We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it."
"لا نرتاد المسرح، كما كان أسلافنا يفعلون، طلبًا للفرار من وطأة الواقع، وإنما لترسيخ تجربتنا له."
Charles Lamb
"The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December."
"يشعر الشاب، حتى الثلاثين، وكأنه بمنأى عن حقيقة الفناء. إنه يدركها عقلاً، بل ويستطيع أن يخطب في هشاشة العمر لو اقتضى الأمر؛ لكنه لا يستشعرها في أعماقه، تماماً كما لا يمكننا في وهج حزيران أن نتخيل برودة كانون الأول."
Charles Lamb
"Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!"
"تأمل ما كنت ستصبح عليه الآن، لو أنك، بدلًا من أن تُغذى في صغرك بالحكايات وخرافات العجائز، حُشِيتَ بالجغرافيا والتاريخ الطبيعي!"
Charles Lamb
"I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death' I forget the decision."
Charles Lamb
"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."
Charles Lamb
"There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine."
Charles Lamb
"I love to lose myself in other men's minds... Books think for me."
Charles Lamb
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
Charles Lamb
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