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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
Pain
Life
Sharper
Evidence

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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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