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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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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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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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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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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.
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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