| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33623 |
| QUOTATION: | Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Lamb (1775–1834), British essayist, critic. Letter, March 28, 1809, to Thomas Manning. Vol. 2, Complete Works of Charles Lamb (1882).
On his horror of moving. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Lamb Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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