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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Evidence
Pain
Life
Sharper

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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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