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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
Charity
Greatest
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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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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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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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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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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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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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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