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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
Literary Critic
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Poet
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London
England
Good
Accidents
Deeds
Charity
Greatest
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Action
Stealth
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Philanthropy
Character
Accident

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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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