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I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

Charles Lamb
Men, Smoking, Toil
On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

Charles Lamb
Smoking, May, Lasts

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

Charles Lamb
Two, Smoking, Three
Charles Lamb (1848). “Final memorials of Charles Lamb, letters [ed.] with sketches of some of his companions by T.N. Talfourd”, p.135

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

Charles Lamb
Night, Other Worlds, Smoking
Letter to Thomas Manning, 26 December 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 207

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Charles Lamb
Smoking, Sake, Tobacco
'A Farewell to Tobacco' l. 122

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

Charles Lamb
Men, Smoking, Toil

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