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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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Found
Philanthropy
Character
Accident
Good
Accidents
Deeds
Charity
Greatest
Pleasure
Action
Stealth

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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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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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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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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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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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Not if I know myself at all.
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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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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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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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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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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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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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